Bosnia marks end of Europe’s violent century
Sarajevo recalls 1914 assassination of Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked a century of conflict
View ArticleBritish Pathé shares Holy Land history via YouTube
Newsreel company’s entire archive of 85,000 clips, many filmed before and during Israel’s formative years, now available
View ArticleAnti-Semitism feared after Ripper revealed
After report reveals that serial killer Jack the Ripper was a Jewish immigrant, family concerned about blowback
View ArticleNew book claims Marco Polo may have ‘discovered’ the New World
Jewish scholar alleges the Venetian adventurer may have reached Americas two centuries before Columbus
View ArticleJack the Ripper’s ID as Jew is unfounded, say experts
Scientists who identified killer as Aaron Kosminski said to have made basic mistakes in analyzing DNA
View ArticleMore than ‘Hocus Pocus’ to Salem’s Jewish past
Biblical history and Mosaic Law permeated the lives — and deaths — of the Massachusetts Bay community which would not ‘suffer a witch to live’
View ArticleSecret Begin-Reagan tapes highlight tense ties over Lebanon
Historian uncovers recordings from 1983 of PM declining a US request to delay an Israeli troop withdrawal
View ArticleAmerican Historical Association rejects anti-Israel resolutions vote
Members decline by a vote of 144 to 54 to debate proposals critical of the Jewish state
View ArticleIsrael’s first step as a modern nation: appeasement
We Jews want everyone to like us, but when it comes to the history of our own land, it’s time to speak up
View ArticleIn Boston, Klezmer musical spoofs Jewish infighting
Based on a novel by Israel Zangwill, ‘The King of Second Avenue’ pits an uptown Ashkenazi mogul against a downtown Sephardi ‘schnorrer’ with nothing but ‘kishkes’
View ArticleJews counted among Lincoln’s closest confidants
The scholars behind book/exhibit ‘Lincoln and the Jews: A History’ illustrate how firmly Jews are part and parcel of US history
View ArticleWhat if the Holocaust had never happened?
In his new counterfactual history, Jeffrey S. Gurock shows how WWII had positive consequences for the Jews… of America
View ArticleStudents perform the mitzvah of posterity in recording survivor testimony
In Yeshiva University High School project ‘Names, Not Numbers,’ history turns personal as students inherit Holocaust survivors’ memories
View ArticleDutch textbook: Britain endorsed Zionism to woo Jewish bankers
Publication, which says Jewish state ‘born of injustice and based on injustice,’ is anti-Semitic, pro-Israel group says
View ArticleJurassic sukkah
A lunar eclipse places the Festival of Booths within a story that began eons before Israelites even existed
View ArticleEphemeral films of Nazi era kept alive by digitalization
US Holocaust Memorial Museum partners with Austrian institutions to preserve historically important footage originally not meant to last
View ArticleIsraeli scholar helps rewrite humanity’s timeline
New study shows modern humans arrived in Eurasia and bred with Neanderthals far earlier than previously thought
View ArticleHistorians warn about use of anger, race in 2016 elections
Democrats should study why some voters ‘are so prone to anti-black, anti-Islamic feelings,’ says one scholar
View ArticleIn ‘dangerous’ move, Poland moves to suppress painful past
Critics say new ‘historical policy offensive’ by governing party would limit Holocaust research, prevent national reckoning of wartime history
View ArticleFrom Crusaders to Nazis in a historical stroll on Jerusalem’s Straus Street
Centuries of war and peace, foreign rulers, religious diversity, shopping, bathing and basketball unfold on a short walk along a single street downtown
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