Star of David: Birth of a Symbol – Legends vs. Facts
ushi
February 1, 2018
In April 1959, the chamber of the Arab League Boycott of Israel submitted a demand that the Swiss watch company Ardath remove the Star of[…]
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- The Megile of Itzik Manger: The Mutation of a Yiddish Purim Classic
- “I Am My Customer”: The Shopping Empire That Lillian Vernon Built With Her Own Two Hands
- She Treated All of Jerusalem’s Children: Wonder Physician Helena Kagan
- ‘A Product of Miracles’ : The Jewish Boy Who Hid From the Nazis in a Hole and Became a Huge Inventor
- Webinar: Hope, Resilience and A New Jewish Narrative
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Visits ANU – Museum of the Jewish People
- The Comeback of Yere’im Shelahuni: A Yom Kippur Liturgical Poem
- Days of Awe: Shai Agnon’s Anthology for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the Days In Between
- Dawood’s Life Project: The Jew From Iraq Who Introduced the Quran to the West
- Queen Esther: The Tragic Story of the Female Trailblazer Sister of Bashevis Singer
- The Girl from Odessa Who Became the Pioneer of Gynecology in Pre-State Israel
- The Enemy of My Enemy: The Story of Jewish Soldiers in the Finnish Army Who Fought Alongside Nazi Germany
- ANU Museum of the Jewish People Acquires the Most Influential Book in History – The Codex Sassoon
- “The Best Place to Grow Up In”: The Sholem Aleichem Cooperative Houses in New York
- “The People of Kiev Made Him a Target and Imposed the Suffering on All Jews”: The Beilis Case – The Last Blood Libel
- The Chinese Saga of the Jewish Physician from Vienna: The Story of Jakob Rosenfeld
- Maximum Factor: The Jewish Makeup Artist Who Fled From the Tsar Straight to the Greatest Stars of Hollywood
- “You Can’t Be Beautiful and Hate”: The First Jewish Miss America and Her Battle Against Antisemitism
- “If I slept for one hour, 30 people would die”: The Jewish Forger Who Saved Tens of Thousands of Lives
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Danna Paz Prins
February 1, 2018
“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose”. Two millions Dollars was the sum an anonymous businessman gladly paid for the four pages[…]
Himmler’s Healer – the Story of Felix Kersten
ushi
January 25, 2018
Oscar Schindler used his enamelware factory as a cover in order to save Jews; Jan and Antonina Żabiński used the zoo they were running for[…]
Cut off from her Grandfather’s Last Will – and became Queen of British Journalism
ushi
January 23, 2018
Take some kids with the worst learning problems you can imagine, and try to tell them about the Dreyfus affair: they are most likely to[…]
Maimonides and the Jews of Yemen – Hand in Hand for Eight Centuries
Dor Saar-Man
January 21, 2018
The middle of the 12th century was quite a dramatic era for the Jews of Yemen. The Fatimid Caliphate who ruled over Yemen for long[…]
Forgotten Torch: The Untold Story of the Jewish Resistance in Algeria
ushi
January 11, 2018
26,000 Jews were living in Algeria in 1830, when France invaded Algeria and made it a French colony for 130 years. The Jews of Algeria[…]
Nazi Germany and the Farhud in Iraq
Dor Saar-Man
January 9, 2018
The most traumatic event in the collective memory of Iraqi Jews — the Farhud — took place during Shavuot 1941. During these violent riots in[…]
The Story of “Zvi Migdal” – the Infamous Jewish Prostitution Cartel
ushi
January 4, 2018
Towards the end of the 19th century, the very sound of the name America had a magical effect on the millions of Jews in Eastern[…]
The Story of Bertha Pappenheim – Anna O
Dor Saar-Man
January 1, 2018
It is well known that Sigmund Freud was Jewish, as were many of his successors. But the first psychoanalysis patient ever was also Jewish – she[…]
Women of Choices: The Sad Story of Greatest Jewish-Arab Female Singers
ivana
December 28, 2017
One interesting phenomena of Jewish life in the modern Arab world was the stardom achieved by many Jewish female singers. There was reason for this:[…]
