Jewish History

I am coming up on my one-year anniversary of working at the Jewish Women’s Archive.  It’s a pleasant shock that ...

“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no ...

Recently, a journalist who was interviewing me asked me to describe what it felt like to be a Jewish New ...

It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...

My husband and I recently journeyed from New Orleans to Israel—a first trip for him, an always-sacred return for me. ...

In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...

This is my first week as the historian for the ISJL. I’ve been so warmly welcomed here—and am already finding connections ...

Donna Tartt, the author of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner  The Goldfinch , was once told by Ken Kesey, the ...

“Eastern Europe’s outcast, Belarus lies at the edge of the region and seems determined to avoid integration with the rest ...

I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to tell this very dramatic, and heretofore almost completely unknown, Holocaust rescue ...

The fifth of the Ten Commandments states: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in ...

Today’s blog is by Gabe Weinstein, a 2013 ISJL Summer Intern in the History Department.  He now lives in Angel Fire, New ...