John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
A new effort in Congress could lead to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia becoming part of the Smithsonian — the institution behind many of the museums that line ...
As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...
Since the time the United States was but a coalition of villages and settlements, America’s Jewish citizens have played an indispensable role in our national story. They arrived as farmers, soldiers, ...
A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The stories and artifacts of Omaha’s Jewish community now have a place to call home. After three years of work, the Milton Mendel and Marsha Kleinberg Jewish Omaha Heritage Center ...