A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot to threaten, intimidate, and massacre Jews made common in late 19th and early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe. Last week, in the continent ...

Inside the creative process of a play that forces us to reflect on what happens when the world looks away – from the 1940s to today.

Many Ashkenazi Jews assume their ancestors came straight from ancient Israel to Germany and Eastern Europe. But that leaves out a huge, often overlooked chapter. When their ancestors left Israel, they ...

Le Pen's party has a history of racism, antisemitism and islamophobia dating back decades. Some prominent Jewish figures in France — which is largely considered to have the biggest Jewish population ...

Theodor Herzl stood on the shoulders of these pioneers, and his ideas for a Jewish state can be traced directly to them.

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...

A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital ...

The Nazis made the yellow badge infamous around the world, but its roots are much older. Roger Viollet/Getty Images Growing up in Belgium, I’d hear the story of how my grandparents married during the ...

Friends and family will come together to celebrate, share gifts and eat traditional foods as the eight-day Jewish festival of ...