In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

The Jewish tradition overflows with stories — and great storytellers. This month, just before Passover, award-winning ...

Shlissel challah is a special loaf baked the first sabbath after Passover. We trace the modern route by which the bread has ...

For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no ...

Strachey brought a formidable wit and candor to biography that had been suppressed in the 19th century in favor of weighty tomes that ... He wishes to celebrate four eminent Jews who were profoundly ...

It featured texts mostly by 19th-century writers, thereby missing an opportunity to show off the talents of contemporary English Jewish authors of children’s books, like Judith Kerr, Liz Kessler ...

The Jews were scapegoated for the losses and the ... their lives for a range of unfortunate reasons, at the end of the 19th century there was a sudden spike in suicides across Europe.

For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...

Writing at the end of the nineteenth century and informed by the so-called logic of capitalism and its ties to imperialism, Hobson saw Jews as orchestrating the Anglo-Boer War for financial gain. Like ...

According to an oft-quoted report, he resorted to biblical imagery in his interview with Kaskel, a reminder of how many 19th-century Americans linked Jews to Ancient Israel, and America to the ...