New US secretary of state’s immigrant ancestor was a trailblazing Yiddishist, as well as a carpenter and masseuse
1871 article: “Hardly anybody knows that war affects the weather strongly and causes heavy rain falls, strong winds, thunder and lightning.”
As a young grad student 30 years ago, Prof. Brian Horowitz was an active witness to history
Most in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur had felt safe in one of Russia’s most isolated corners
After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one leading Jewish newspaper
