A Polish Jesuit used disguises and cunning to save Jews from the Holocaust, refusing three chances to escape his own ...

Located in Šeduva, Lithuania, the Jewish Museum commemorates the culture of small Eastern European towns before the Second World War. The museum's architecture is reminiscent of the houses in the ...

A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of ...

Yet as Lithuania struggles to confront its past, antisemitism is once again finding legitimacy in the country’s present. Seduva, a town of just 2,400 people located about a two-hours’ drive north of ...

Yet, nearly eight decades on, genocide dots the pages of the history of different parts of the globe: Bosnia, Rwanda, ...

That’s how Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” and Alfred Uhry’s “Last Night of Ballyhoo” begin, and also Ian Buruma’s memoir about his grandparents, “Their Promised Land.” The idea is, as soon as you show ...

When Bernard Shanfield made one of his weekly checks on Beth Israel Synagogue in May 1997, paint was peeling off its walls and some of the bulbs on its twin menorahs had burned out.

At the end of 2025, an eye-catching headline appeared in several major news outlets: Robin and Elliott Broidy had paid $ 1.5 ...

She was speaking about a recent visit to Auschwitz. She said the energy there was so dark, so oppressive, that she couldn’t ...

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This past weekend, a high school junior unfolded a family history that had been hidden for generations — retelling stories of ...

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s greatest modern poet, fell in love with a Jewish Israeli woman named Tamar Ben-Ami in the early 1960s – a relationship that inspired some of the most celebrated Arabic ...