The first Jews arrived in what would become the United States as early as the 1650s, when a small group of Sephardi refugees ...

An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via Wikimedia Commons Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: ...

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 ...

Colloquy Live: Read the transcript a live, online discussion with Bryan Mark Rigg, author of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German ...

(The Conversation) — Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities. (The Conversation) — When the ...

Archaeologists from the University of Haifa have uncovered the earliest evidence of bronze production in the Southern Levant, dating back about 3,000 years, in a site that might have been part of the ...

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Many Poles ... were very happy about what was happening to the Jews,” the author's mother, a survivor, once wrote.

(THE CONVERSATION) Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition? This ...