Banana King: The Story of Sam Zemurray
ushi
February 3, 2022
He was sort of the Jewish version of Forrest Gump. He was considered one of the richest and most powerful people in the United States,[…]
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- 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
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The Story of the Jewish Warrior Who Became a Symbol of Bravery in Poland
ushi
January 30, 2022
It is commonly believed that no organized Jewish fighting force was ever established after the Bar Kokhba Revolt, which broke out in the second century[…]
A Two-Piece Invention: The Son of Jewish Immigrants Who Brought the Bikini to the World
ushi
January 12, 2022
In keeping with the proverb that great minds think alike, the inspiration for the name given to the popular two-piece bathing suit, the bikini, also[…]
Women Workers of the World, Unite: The Story of the Jewish Activist Who Transformed the Labor Rules
ushi
November 28, 2021
Every time you go to a polling place to cast your vote or every time you are given maternity leave paid for by the government;[…]
The Big Tree of Life: The First Anniversary of the Death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
ushi
November 18, 2021
A few weeks ago I came across a BBC debate that had been held between the former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of[…]
You Killed My Family, Prepare to Die: The Unbelievable Story of the Jewish Avenger from Romania
ushi
November 1, 2021
“On December 27, 1955, a naval court martial in Israel sentenced the soldier Eliahu Itzkovitz to three months in prison after being tried for desertion.”[…]
A Herd of Independent Minds: The Story of the “New York Intellectuals”
ushi
October 4, 2021
“What are the Jewish geniuses up to,” pondered the distinguished American philosopher, William James, as he witnessed throngs of Jewish immigrants crowding into the Lower[…]
The Iron King: The Son of a Jewish Blacksmith Who Became the Modern-Day Samson
ushi
September 13, 2021
A few months before his tragic death, the circus artist, Zishe Breitbart, put on a nighttime performance in the city of Lublin, Poland. That afternoon,[…]
The Don Quixote of Memory: The Artist Who Devoted His Life to the War Against Forgetting
ushi
August 22, 2021
The author, Jonathan Safran Foer, wrote that “Jews have six senses. Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing and…memory. While Gentiles experience and process the world through[…]
Send a Shana Tova Card to Your Loved Ones!
Danna Paz Prins
August 14, 2021
Rosh Hashanah is just around the corner and it’s time to send some virtual Shana Tova cards, the Jewish New Year greetings, to your loved[…]
