Photo taken by an Austrian soldier provides a rare glimpse
A Belated Kaddish for the Unnamed Victims of the Annaberg Transport
They were murdered days after Yom Kippur, yet my father survived
Eating by Example on Yom Kippur, an Epidemic Story
When cholera ran rampant, saving lives superseded all else
The Ramban’s Prayer Unearthed and in English for the First Time
“Guide me in your truth and fulfill me from its delights”
How Tishrei Became the First Month of the Hebrew Calendar
How did we come to celebrate the New Year in the fall when in the Bible it was celebrated in the spring? And what is the origin of the first month’s peculiar name?
Thank You for Smoking: Abd al-Ghani Al-Nabulsi and the Ottoman Tobacco Controversy
A seventeenth-century Muslim intellectual’s staunch defense of smoking sheds light on the practice’s connection to modernity and the concept of recreation
A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
The Children of ’73 Write About the Yom Kippur War
Letters written by Israeli children during the 1973 war reveal how they experienced one of the nation’s most challenging periods.
The Story of Daniel Hagège: Judeo-Arabic Author and Documenter of Tunisian Jewry
Hagège estimated that some 150 Tunisian authors wrote in Judeo-Arabic. This article is in memory of 100 years of Judeo-Arabic literature.
Dodging the Draft in the Old Country
Besides poverty and pogroms, forced conscription weighed heavily on European Jews
