1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
In the 1950s, Katherine Senesh donated four pages containing poems handwritten by her paratrooper daughter to the National Library. Now, with the deposit of the full Hannah Senesh Collection, these pages will be reunited with the notebook from which they originally came
At Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue, Fredi chanted Moses’ song of darkness and redemption
After years in the Berlin Royal Opera, an aging Teréz Rothauser was sent to Theresienstadt
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was utter chaos. Armored corps soldiers who joined the battle in the Valley of Tears on the Golan Heights were not familiar with the terrain and couldn’t find a proper map to guide them, so they improvised…
Some 200,000 pages of historic press will be fully searchable as part of new global initiative
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
Letters written by Israeli children during the 1973 war reveal how they experienced one of the nation’s most challenging periods.
Today, almost all of us carry a smartphone and own a PC or laptop at home, but the earliest computing devices couldn’t exactly fit in your pocket…
