The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.
An investigation, and a tribute to the 2022 Herzl Prize laureate Roger Hertog.
The plague in Padua.
Remnants of a medieval community.
Faith is what you struggle with when you do not have the crutch of easy graving.
Mixed Messages.
Polish aristocrats trusted them not to drink up the supplies.
The only Spanish synagogue not turned into a church.
The myth and reality of the Khazars.
“Nations who are limited by the ways of religions.”
What might be the earliest extant document in modern Persian.
With some help from the great rabbis of England.
A tale of two Josephs.