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 ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

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 ...

A new book tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, a 19th-century British Jew who played a complicated role in the colonization ...

The building originally belonged to a bank started by the Italian Jewish Allatini brothers, 19th-Century entrepreneurs whose flour company grew to be the largest in the Balkans before World War Two.

dating back to the late 19th century — around 100,000, according to some estimates, out of a total population of 6.3 million. The country’s Jewish community, by contrast, numbers around 200.

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 ...