Ceremonial objects have long been an essential element of Jewish visual culture. Introduction From cradle to grave,...
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Turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures. Introduction The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of...
A collaboration between an advertiser and the famous coffee company produced the classic U.S. haggadah. Introduction For more...
The “Unite the Right” rally and others echo sentiments of American antisemitism in the 19th century. Introduction...
Examining the significance of their intellectual contributions by uncovering the webs of meaning in which their work...
These women have had massive impacts on our laws and the advancement of human rights. Emma Lazarus...
Jewish practitioners participated in the exchange of knowledge between Christian and Muslim writers and practitioners. The Book...
Jews living in Europe were easy, early targets for Crusaders while life was comparatively tranquil in Islamic...
Jewish would-be artists began arriving in Paris in the decade before the First World War. Jews were...
These networks formed as a result of the dispersal of Jewish society over great distances starting in...
Jews were not welcomed everywhere in the colonies, but they established small communities. Not many Jews immigrated...
Hanukkah demands fewer religious rituals than most other Jewish observances. Golden Pixels LLC Despite the primacy of Christmas in American culture,...
In the United States, Hanukkah has gained much significance. Tercer Ojo Photography/Shutterstock.com Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor...
Moses Mendelssohn (left) discusses theology with Johann Kaspar Lavater and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, c.1800...
Young Jews praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem (Image © Bigstock/kirill4mula) There are approximately 175,000...
‘Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur,’ by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 In the 1870s European Judaism...
Sephardic Diaspora map / Skillman Library, Lafayette College Were (and are) Jewish migrations predominantly the result of...
A miniature from en:Grandes Chroniques de France depicting the expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. / Diaspora Museum, Tel...
Modern reconstruction of what the Second Temple would have looked like after its renovation during the reign of Herod I...
Roman Triumphal arch (Arch of Titus) panel copy from Beth Hatefutsoth, showing spoils of Jerusalem temple /...
Seven centuries of the Rothschild Pentateuch’s history chart the story. By Dr. Elizabeth Morrison / 09.19.2018 Senior...
View of Toledo, Spain with the Samuel Halevi Abulafia synagogue at the center and the Monastery of...
David Ben Gurion with members of Jewish Zionist Youth Movement in Tallin in Estonia. / Wikimedia Commons...
Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president / Jerusalem Post The longing for Zion, the hope that the dispersed Jews...
Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941). By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A / Heinrich Hoffmann / CC-BY-SA...
Did Ashkenazi Jews descend from ancient Turkey? Everett Historical/Shutterstock Yiddish was at one time the international language of Ashkenazic Jews, but it’s exact...
“Yiddish Motifs” (Yidishe Motoyf). Woodcut of a traditional Shtetl by the Chicago-based Ashkenazi artist Todros Geller, published...
Protests against the Horrible Holocaust !!! Stop! Stop! Stop! By Dr. Peter Cole / 02.25.2018 Professor of...
Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi’s aboard the MS St. Louis, which was turned back at the U.S....
Jews in the Syngagoue by Rembrandt / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lars Fischer / 10.27.2017 Honorary Research...