26 letters and 6 postcards, previously unknown, all by Stefan Zweig, one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century, have been given to the National Library of Israel.
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.
Human bones and broken tombstones were used as building materials, desecrating 500 years of Jewish history and half a million gravestones.
The very public Jewish roots of Captain America, the first superhero to punch Hitler in the face!
One of the most despicable books in human history ever published is Mein Kampf. This is the story of Sein Kampf (His Struggle, An Answer to Hitler), and the woman who wrote it.
Years before Eichmann was brought to Israel to stand trial, the notorious mass-murderer visited Mandatory Palestine in 1937 while disguised as a journalist.
Discovered in the National Library archives, Himmler’s message to the Mufti decried the “Jewish invaders”, while sending “warm wishes for your continued struggle…”
For centuries, scholars deliberately distorted Jewish teachings to confirm their antisemitic views
The famed escape artist, illusionist, and séance buster, was also intensely proud of his Judaism.
In 1883 Lazarus wrote the poem that greets new immigrants to America till this very day.
