For almost half a century, the pulse of much of the Jewish Diaspora was the Bund, a combination labor union, political party and social organization. But for years the only way to see those signs of ...
Rich Wexler is always looking for little-known stories in American Jewish culture like this one: With a knack for finding musical talent, Jewish-American record company executive and producer Henry ...
“G” is for Green Party, Grenada, Graterford Prison, Gratz. “H” is for Habitat for Humanity, halacha, Halley’s Comet, hate crimes. The mishmash of categories finds order in a drawer marked “GRA-HEB,” ...
(JTA) — Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries of Jewish life in Ireland. The database, which was ...
This report investigates disparities between non-Orthodox Jewish men and women with respect to Jewish religious and communal engagement. The study draws on survey data from five different sources ...
'An archives is a place where people go to find information. But rather than gathering information from books as you would in a library, people who do research in archives often gather firsthand facts ...
PITTSBURGH — The Heinz History Center has launched a new digital archive that details a Pittsburgher’s efforts to help Jews escape the Holocaust. The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the ...
In the early 1970s, American Jews were, on the whole, centrist and conventional. Most were married, and most to other Jews. Their largest religious denomination was the Conservative movement, with its ...
Jews make up 2 percent of the American population, and just 0.2 percent of the world population. In practice, this means that most people have never met one. What the average person knows of Jews, ...
It wasn’t always easy, but look what they created: a thriving Jewish community in the heart of South Florida. Historians mark the beginning of Jewish life in Boca Raton to the 1920s, with an ...
The war made Americans out of its Jewish soldiers, but left an enduring legacy of anti-Jewish slanders, writes a historian of the era. (JTA) — Max Glass, a recent immigrant from Hungary, had an ...
Hannah Saraf ’27 was spending Family Weekend on campus with her parents on Oct. 7, 2023, when she learned about a massive attack in southern Israel that day. Saraf, whose father is Israeli, anxiously ...