Jewish History
Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood
If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...
Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...
Joseph Jacobs: Fighting Anti-Semitism, Genetically
In Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People, Harry Ostrer wrote about a series of scientists who contributed to ...
Being Jewish without Trauma
When my son Noah was about 3 or 4, he came home from school one day and asked me, “Abba, ...
The Joint
Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteineproject, and reconnecting branches of her family ...
Borrowed Words
I have always been fascinated by epigraphs — those borrowed words that authors choose to introduce and encapsulate the message ...
Stolpersteine
German artist Gunter Demnig created these two Stolpersteine in memory of Samuel Sigmar and Alice Berta Gunzburger in 2005. He ...
Stumbling Stones
In 1989 I accompanied my parents and brother on my mother’s first visit back to her birthplace of Freiburg im Breisgau ...
The Magic of Summer Camp
When my ten year old daughter heads to sleep-away camp this summer she will follow a family tradition that began the ...
What’s in a Name?
One of the greatest dilemmas I faced while writing The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education was how to refer ...
In Moses Montefiore’s Footsteps
For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...
Historians, Biographers
Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...