The Jewish people are known as the ‘people of the Book’. Introduction This remarkable silver crown, lavishly...
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It is estimated by the ancient historians Tacitus and Josephus that about 600,000 to 1,100,000 people died...
There was a continuing rationale for the indefensible Christian conduct of the Middle Ages. Introduction Many of...
The “Unite the Right” rally and others echo sentiments of American antisemitism in the 19th century. Introduction...
A tombstone commissioned by a man in memory of his deceased mother, “Siporah daughter of Dan”. Everything...
Language about Jews in the medieval Good Friday liturgy often carried over into physical violence toward local...
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...
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...