When Samuel Ha-Levi illegally built a synagogue in the provincial Spanish town of Toledo, no one could have known that it would one day become a church, then a military barracks in the Napoleonic war, a national monument, and finally a museum… but that’s just the beginning!
The only known manuscript of The Chronicle of Pope Paul IV is at the National Library in Jerusalem…
For Ilya Galant, the myths of eternal hatred between Ukrainians and Jews were just that, myths
Eight Black youths were hastily sentenced to death in 1931 Alabama. Global outcry ensued, and a flamboyant New York Jewish lawyer was sent down to defend them…
Convicted in Poland for insulting the head of a friendly nation, Jewish hero Nahum Halberstadt was freed on Christmas Day
Jews in Mexico who secretly kept their faith were tortured and tried. Their tormentors saved their poems…
The story of two courageous converts, their Jewish wives and institutional anti-Semitism
New research suggests that Alfonso de Zamora may have remained true to his faith
From the surrender of Spain to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent and beyond, they were there
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
