By 1880 there were about 4,000 Jews in South Africa. Jewish immigration increased rapidly during the pogroms of 1881 to 1884. The first countrywide Union of South African census in 1911 indicated ...
She helped Jewish acquaintances escape extermination ... Margaret “Muriel” White was born in 1880 in Paris. Her father, Henry White, was a world-famous diplomat. Her mother, Margaret ...
Bread is a staple across the world, and there are dozens of variations depending on the region. Here's what to expect from ...
Aaron Kosminski was born in Klodawa in central Poland, on September 11, 1865. His family fled the imperial Russian anti-Jewish pogroms and emigrated to east London in the early 1880s. He lived ...
In the wake of large immigration from Germany in the middle of the 19th century, the new arrivals bolstered the Jewish population from 6,000 in 1826 to 15,000 in 1840 and 280,000 in 1880. Then ...
Merrill Eisenhower will join Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Andrzej Duda alongside 80 Holocaust survivors, some of whom were liberated by U.S. and Allied forces led by his ...
Eisenberg directed and starred in “A Real Pain,” which follows two American Jewish cousins who travel to Poland to learn more about their recently deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.
Amid all of this, I’ve been interested in hearing Jewish voices speaking about the administration’s apparent use of Jewish people and their pain to carry out its illiberal goals — and the ...
In actuality, these developments are not about fighting antisemitism or, for that matter, keeping Jews safe. Rather, this appears to me to be a cynical ploy by an administration full of people who ...
An-ski’s famed drama. In 1975, the young photographer Chuck Fishman visited Poland for the very first time. The photographs he took were published in the book 'Polish Jews: The Final Chapter'.
The last time I saw Krakow was the summer of 1990. Communist power had ended in Poland, but old ways continued. The police still barked orders. The buildings moldered. The air still choked with ...