Diaspora

A glimpse into the legendary Russian author’s relationship with the People of the Book

The riots of the “Farhud” in Iraq convinced Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi that time was running out for Jews living in Arab countries in the 1940s

The story behind one black-and-white picture, glued to a yellowing piece of cardboard

50 years later, illicit texts and dissidents remembered

A nostalgic celebration with the Jews of Saloniki

Curing diseases, restoring organs, revitalizing the body and even resurrecting the dead! Rare caricatures from 19th-century England prove that strange folk remedies have been with us for a while…

Coronavirus? We’ve seen it all before… A look at several plagues (both real and fictional) that were commemorated in literature over the years

A look back at the disaster which befell the city of Brody in 1867, and how Europe’s Jews came together to help the victims

These Jewish soldiers took part in the liberation of Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany

In a newly surfaced letter, the dictionary’s founding editor wrote that it was not thought likely to be more than a “passing nonce-word…”