Lost Shtetl: Lithuania opens museum to Jewish life
Lithuania’s new Lost Shtetl museum in Šeduva honors the nation’s vanished Jewish communities.
Holocaust Museum Boston to display lifesaving teddy bear
“Sasha,” an 81-year-old teddy bear that protected Michael Gruenbaum in Terezín, will go on display in 2026.
Once a synagogue in SC, now a $4.5M mansion for sale
Greenville’s first synagogue (built 1929–30) is now a luxury home listed at $4.5M.
Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book
Budapest’s Jewish Theological Seminary is recovering books stolen by Nazis; one volume was recently returned in New York.
A brief history of Jewish identity and belonging in Czechoslovakia
Historian Ivan Puš traces the complex evolution of Jewish identity in Czechoslovakia throughout the 20th century
Beyond Art: Hungary’s Stolen Jewish Property
Hungary’s wartime bureaucracy systemically seized a staggering array of Jewish-owned property in 1944 — beyond fine art, confiscations extended to everyday domestic items, scientific instruments, musical instruments, books, children’s toys, and family papers.
New book on Jewish history in Lithuania published by Parkes Honorary Fellow
Historian Nick Sayers explores Lithuania’s Jewish experience in The Jews of Lithuania.
'Everyone lost': How a Zionist migration programme deprived Morocco of its thriving Jewish community
In the mid-20th century, Zionist programs Cadima and Operation Yachin moved tens of thousands of Moroccan Jews to Israel.
Why did a Jewish businessman fund segregated black schools?
Julius Rosenwald, a Jewish philanthropist, funded over 5,000 schools for Black students in the segregated South.
Eight decades later, a Holocaust survivor reunites with his liberator
Nearly 80 years after his liberation from Buchenwald, Holocaust survivor Andrew Roth (97) reconnected with U.S. soldier Jack Moran (99), one of his liberators.