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The story of Jewish people in Hollywood is a story of immigration, entrepreneurship, creative work and changing American identities. In the early twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and their children helped build several of the…
Paul Chaim Eisenberg is an important figure in the postwar history of Austrian Jewry. Born in Vienna in 1950, he came from a rabbinic family. His father, Akiba Eisenberg, had arrived in Austria after the Second World War and served…
Jewish communities lived for centuries in places that are now Afghanistan, especially in urban and trading centers such as Herat and Kabul. Their history is connected to wider Persian-speaking Jewish networks across Central Asia and…
The seventeenth-century Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Sephardic families who built it and the living community around it.
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main on 12 June 1929, to Otto and Edith Frank. Her older sister Margot had been born in 1926. After the Nazis came to power, the family moved to Amsterdam, hoping for safety and normal life. Anne…
For centuries, conspiracy stories falsely portrayed Jewish communities as secretly harming their neighbors. The claims about poisoned wells, ritual murder or consuming children, and a Jewish plan to control world affairs are…
Argentina became one of the major centers of the modern Jewish diaspora during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Immigration included Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Sephardi and Middle Eastern…
Argentina is home to a major Jewish diaspora community whose story reaches from immigration and farming settlements to Buenos Aires cultural life.
Flavius Josephus was a first-century Jewish historian who participated in the revolt against Rome before later writing under Roman imperial patronage. This unusual biography makes his account both invaluable and controversial. He had…
Jewish communities have shaped American religious, cultural, political and intellectual life for generations, with New York as an especially important center.
The United States is home to one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, with Jewish communities ranging from highly observant to secular and culturally affiliated. The history includes immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe,…
Why people travel to the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, what the visit means and how it differs from 770 Brooklyn. The following article distinguishes documentary facts, religious beliefs, historical memories and modern…
In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an officer of Jewish origin from Alsace, was accused of passing military secrets to Germany. A court-martial convicted him following flawed proceedings, including a secret dossier shown to…