Jewish history
The martyrs of York—and what came next.
And its great soldier, stateman, poet, and rabbi.
The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.
The 9th-century siddur from which all others descend.
“Tell us about yourself.”
The historian behind the movie Defiance.
Sephardim were the first non-African group to adopt the local creole.
Stock up on flour and oil!
Playing hardball.
Where others saw contradiction, the author of Ḥatam Sofer saw synthesis.
And a Portuguese return to Judaism.
The Convert tells of a French noblewoman who fell in love with a rabbi’s son.
Rare documentation of a community destroyed by the Mongol horde.