Jewish History

Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist Revisionist movement.

Longtime leader of Israel's Labor Party.

Christianity and Islam share a reverence for Judaism's patriarch.

From military hawk to political pragmatist

New York was a hub of clothing production, with sweatshops the first American workplace for many newly arrived Jews.

A profile of the anarchist and lifelong advocate for social justice.

A brief history of the place where so many Jewish immigrants entered the U.S.

A mid-20th-century haven for Jews trying to get away from it all.

Falsely accused of murdering a girl, a Jewish man was killed by a white mob in Georgia in 1915.

From religious idea to secular ideology.

This Nobel-winning Holocaust survivor brought the Holocaust and its survival to the American public.

The espionage conviction of a French military officer was a watershed event in the history of European anti-Semitism.