The Jewish Historical Society of Long Island has released a documentary to kick off the celebration of the Jewish community’s 150th anniversary on Long Island. Brad Kolodny, president of the Jewish ...

With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...

Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain talks about a new exhibit of work that includes 5,000 years of Jewish history etched into ...

Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...

Full of lofty ambitions, a museum focused on American Jews has put its faith in a new leader who comes from Israel. The reason that Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...

Growing up in Lancaster, Ohio, I remember discovering a book in the local library that ultimately helped to change how I viewed my hometown’s history. The book, “Jewish Literacy” by Joseph Telushkin, ...

LIMA — The Jewish Virtual Library has recently digitized an extensive history of Lima’s Jewish community. According to Austin Reid, writer and historian based in Rochester, N.Y., the national ...

Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago ...

The former home of pushcarts, pickle peddlers and textile wholesalers welcomes a new crop of Jewish spots to the Lower East Side street. For a trip through New York City’s Jewish history and a glimpse ...