When celebrated African-American Yiddish soloist Thomas Larue crossed the Atlantic, he didn’t know what was in store…
Albert Sabin may be less famous than Jonas Salk, but he probably shouldn’t be
1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
In the 1950s, Katherine Senesh donated four pages containing poems handwritten by her paratrooper daughter to the National Library. Now, with the deposit of the full Hannah Senesh Collection, these pages will be reunited with the notebook from which they originally came
At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was utter chaos. Armored corps soldiers who joined the battle in the Valley of Tears on the Golan Heights were not familiar with the terrain and couldn’t find a proper map to guide them, so they improvised…
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
