Tag: Jewish history
Morocco’s rich Jewish history
Morocco’s Jewish community has declined from its heyday of 250,000 people in the 1950s to a few thousand today, but its vibrant past continues to be a draw for Jewish visitors and a selling...
Hebrew grammar book from 16th century returns to Prague
PRAGUE (AP) — A 16th century book that belonged to Prague's Jewish community before World War II and surfaced at a New York City auction last year was brought back to the Czech Republic...
Remember Baghdad: Iraq’s last Jews tell the story of their country in new British...
“Jews, Muslims, Christians – we were all Iraqis – it was paradise.”
On the hundredth anniversary of the British invasion in 1917, Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how...
Krugerdorf cemetery: A testimony to the Jewish pioneers of the north of Canada
Abe Aidelbaum, one of the last remaining Jews in Kirkland Lake, Ont. – just north of Krugerdorf, where a small, 112-year-old Jewish cemetery sits – is working to obtain charitable status for the cemetery,...
Now online: Never-before seen footage of 1900s Jewish Britain
The images tumble from the screen, in glorious Technicolor or flickering black-and-white. The quality is highly variable and so is the subject matter, ranging from the utterly banal to the high-flown.
And yet, there is...
Remembering the Jewish community of Baghdad
Described as “gripping” and “absorbing” by Peter Bradshaw, the The Guardian's chief film critic, Remember Baghdad reveals the untold story of Iraq, though the eyes of the Jews, Iraq’s first wave of refugees. From...
Jewish trove hidden from Nazis gives up its secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
The...
Poland pledges $28 million for Warsaw Jewish cemetery restoration
Poland’s government pledged $28 million to restoring the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, making the preservation project one of the largest of its kind in European history.
Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski told World Jewish Congress CEO...
Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
In 2003, a group of 16 American soldiers from the Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha discovered a trove of Iraqi Jewish documents in Saddam Hussein’s basement. It was quickly realized by the soldiers that the...
Hanukkah’s true meaning is about Jewish survival
Beginning on the evening of Dec. 12, Jews will celebrate the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most visible Jewish holiday.
While critics sometimes identify Christmas as promoting the prevalence in...