Greek songs and stories, a book from Morocco, and one ruby-eyed snake ring…
How local Jews – some with fresh memories of European pogroms – did their small part to help victims of one of the worst acts of racial violence in US history
The unbelievable story of how 1,088 (or was it 1,122?) people flew aboard a single airplane as part of 1991’s Operation Solomon
Tunes from his childhood accompanied Yitzchak Freilich through the camps and on to his new life in America. Recorded by his son, they are now online as part of the National Library of Israel collection
New US secretary of state’s immigrant ancestor was a trailblazing Yiddishist, as well as a carpenter and masseuse
As a young grad student 30 years ago, Prof. Brian Horowitz was an active witness to history
From the surrender of Spain to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent and beyond, they were there
“He was like a character out of a book. He was like something somebody wrote.”
From medical school to the battlefield, he wound up in Siberia and China before America
Besides poverty and pogroms, forced conscription weighed heavily on European Jews
