Diaspora

Beautiful, inexpensive and easy to use – postcards were once among the most popular forms of correspondence. In honor of their 150th anniversary, we take a look back at some early examples

Benny “Bugsy” Siegel hoped to transform the little-known town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world

The scroll was hidden away from the German occupiers in an unlikely location…

A glimpse of the Letter of Apostasy (“Iggeret HaShmad”) sent by Maimonides as a message to Jews who were forced to convert to Islam and now wished to return to Judaism

The legendary movie star was enlisted to join a campaign raising awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry during the Cold War era

How a women’s protest group made a difference by raising the cause of Soviet Jewish political prisoners during the Cold War

Several months after he was baptized, the poet Heinrich Heine wrote to his friend about the frustration, disappointment and remorse that this action had brought about.

Shloimy Alman’s collection of photographs of Jewish London from the 1970s survive as a unique record of a disappeared world.

Sent 80 years ago, on the day World War II broke out, the greeting recently surfaced

The Jewish people have wandered the face of the globe, picking up various culinary traditions, rendering “Jewish food” into a wide and somewhat undefinable genre of cooking.