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 YIVO exhibit, “Runaway Husbands, Desperate Families: The Story of the National Desertion Bureau,” examines a lesser-known aspect of Jewish immigrant life in the U.S. In December of 1912, Nathan ...

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 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 ...

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 ...