The plan to call a Jewish World Conference in Geneva in July which has been put forward by the American Jewish Congress with a view to convoking a Jewish World Congress as a permanent institution is ...

The Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of — and indeed reactions to — the ...

Jewish Emancipation by the Czar? A number of interested parties that are participants in the current European war are courting the Jews of the Pale of Settlement. Correspondents in St. Petersburg have ...

Shmuel Rosner and David Sorkin discuss his book: “Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries.” ...

The death took place here to-day of Dr. Adolf Stern, former member of the Roumanian Parliament and founder and first President of the Union of Roumanian Jews, of which he was Honorary President since ...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, to present a lecture titled "The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from ...

I am the kind of Jew I am today because of something that happened long before I was born, and the same is true for every Jewish man or woman who happens to be reading these words. Jewish history, of ...

Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background. That background was known to all his friends, and Marx gave no sign of wishing to deny it. But even his daughter Eleanor, who studied ...

Shofar, Vol. 34, No. 4, Special Issue: Rethinking Exile, Center, and Diaspora in Modern Jewish Culture (Summer 2016), pp. 71-97 (27 pages) https://doi.org/10.5703 ...

News that the South had lost the Civil War and that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed all enslaved people came late to Texas — June 19, 1865. Since then, Black communities in the South have ...

Here's what to know about Passover, when Passover 2026 begins and ends, and a calendar of when other Jewish holidays land in 2026.