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Dr. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia
Dr. Yochai Ben-Gedalia is the director of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
Diaspora
Jewish schools after the destruction: View rare photos smuggled into Israel from post-war Hungary
A letter sent by the wives of Jewish men imprisoned during the Damascus Affair of 1840 gives voice to the suffering of these women, some of whom were beaten and even forced to provide sexual favors as a result of the blood libel
Archivists at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives were surprised to discover a famous figure while examining historic 250 year old records from Vilnius
Zishe Breitbart was known as the “Modern Day Samson” and performed all over the world until his untimely death.
These rare photos show the story of the Jewish refugees who settled in Kenya in the 1930s.
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