Diaspora

Only at the gates of Auschwitz did ‘vivacious brunette’ Hedwig Bernhard let go of the gift she received from Rainer Maria Rilke…

Jewish schools after the destruction: View rare photos smuggled into Israel from post-war Hungary

For two decades, one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust was all but forgotten

A rabbi, a moneychanger and a goldsmith meet in a German photography studio in the early 20th century. No, this is not the opening line of a joke. It is the beginning of a mystery, since all three characters are in fact the same person

After decades in ruins, Nikos Stavroulakis set out to revitalize Jewish life on the Greek island of Crete

Strongman, educator, culture critic, civil society leader, journalist, publisher and historian. Edward Lawrence Levy was all of these and more.

Freud himself refrained from publicly psychoanalyzing the despot. Dr. W. Beran Wolfe didn’t…

The story of two courageous converts, their Jewish wives and institutional anti-Semitism

The son of a famous performer, Kirill Chenkin fought in the Spanish Civil War and was recruited by Soviet intelligence prior to joining the faculty of Black Mountain College. He later became a ‘refusenik’ spokesman…

A leading theory ties the identity of the insect from Franz Kafka’s classic “The Metamorphosis” to the author’s Hebrew teacher