Judaism

How did the song of a Muslim Imam from the Caucasus Mountains become a Hassidic niggun [song] in the Rebbe’s court in Brooklyn?

From a rare Jewish-Italian manuscript: An outraged letter from the Jews of Ferrara to the Inquisition authorities requesting they stop censoring their printed books.

Boys in antiquity were taught to read and write – this we know. But were girls their brothers’ peers? What about their mothers?

​Dracula? He’s nothing compared to the first vampire in history, the one and only Lilith. Among her many “hobbies”: hounding humankind, causing crib death and night emissions in men, and sucking blood.

Do you thank the Almighty for making you a man or a woman? Two fifteenth-century manuscripts show the choice is yours!

How did children practice their Hebrew letters in Medieval times? A glimpse through the Cairo Geniza offers us an answer and reveals that not much has changed.

With the breakout of the French Revolution, the supporters found themselves having to face what was called “the Jewish question”.

For centuries, scholars deliberately distorted Jewish teachings to confirm their antisemitic views

The story of ecstasy that produced the most famous Jewish song in the world.