Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programming including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy. The streamer will make documentary features and short ...

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

The story of Black–Ashkenazi Jewish relations is not a simple tale of alliance or betrayal—it is a window into how race, ...

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...

Gresham Bader’s “Our Spiritual Heroes-Seven centuries of Jewish Thought” (Minister Publishing Co., Brooklyn ) is all the title claims for it, and more. It is a fascinating and admirably written book ...

What if Alaska is home of a big Jewish settlement and the fledgling state of Israel was destroyed? That is the setup of a TV series project based on Michael Chabon’s acclaimed 2007 alternative history ...

A group of klezmer musicians was jamming in Lower Manhattan, when its fiddler suddenly stopped and encouraged a preteen ...

A history of Yiddish literature written by Dr. I. Schipper, well-known historian and journalist of Poland, will be published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute to mark Dr. Schipper’s fiftieth ...