On 27 January, the world commemorates an important and tragic anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Officially known as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of ...
The YIVO institute, an archive, library and research institution on Eastern European Jewish civilization, recently stumbled on a novel problem in its 100 year history. In its early days in Europe, the ...
A new exhibit at the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri, explores the history of Jewish people in the Ozarks. The exhibit, "Creating Community: Jews of Springfield," features ritual ...
For most of her life, Peruvian-born Yvette Merzbacher wondered where her four paternal great-grandparents were buried. All she knew was that her grandparents came from Bessarabia, and that her ...
A corporate executive who specialized in mergers, he brought together five Jewish institutions and their collections at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. By Richard Sandomir Bruce Slovin, a ...
‘It’s a thing to be proud of’: FAU exhibit, symposium to celebrate history of Jewish life in Florida
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 ...
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Germany excels at restoring synagogues destroyed by the Nazis. But can they foster new Jewish life?
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I was in the pews when Munich reopened the Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue — the city’s only surviving prewar synagogue — last month. It is an exquisite restoration and a bevy of politicians showed up.
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