The trial of Adolf Eichmann had a profound effect on Holocaust discourse in the young State of Israel. During the trial, a heated debate raged within Israeli society over the appropriate punishment for the senior SS officer…
How I Found the Lost Ending to a Legendary Author’s Story
Modern technology helped reveal the conclusion to “Falik and His House”, written by renowned Yiddish author Jacob Dinezon nearly 120 years ago
Rabbi Löw’s “Kiss” from Prison
101 years after it was written, “The Kiss” by preeminent Hungarian Rabbi Immánuel Löw has finally been translated into English
Israel’s First Independence Day and “The Parade That Didn’t March”
What Israel’s Independence Day looked like before there was an Independence Day
The Cry
A lamentation for Nechama, mother of Alec
David Ben David Cheated Death… and Missed Israel’s Birth
He swam to Haifa in 1940, unknowingly escaping the ill-fated “Patria”, then spent most of the 1948 war as a POW, saved from death more than once by his Arab Legion captors
The Surrender of the Old City’s Jewish Quarter
The tragic circumstances that led to the surrender of the Jewish Quarter’s defenders in Jerusalem’s Old City during the War of Independence
Reporting the Holocaust Alongside Vacation Ads
In 1939, sickening accounts of impending genocide appeared on the same pages as cruise and resort promos
József “Csibi” Braun: The Tragic Story of a Jewish Soccer Star
József Braun was Footballer of the Year and top scorer in his native Hungary, but those that saw him star for the national team couldn’t have guessed that his life would come to a tragic end in the Holocaust
