Jan. 21, 1912: Birthday of Konrad Bloch, who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how ...

Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on ...

Fifty years after her death in New York, Hannah Arendt has become the most popular philosopher of our time. For good reason: Her views are just as timely as ever.

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A century after the famed composer wed Ellin Mackay, a Catholic heiress, their marriage offers a window into how Jewish attitudes toward interfaith unions have evolved — and how much they haven’t.

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

“Today is a good day for the many people affected who had been cut off from electricity and heat since Jan 3,” said Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner. The operation to restore power, which started at 11am, was ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...

How did the scars of war shape two of Poland’s greatest artists? Art historian Anda Rottenberg unpacks the shared fate and creative 'afterimages' of Alina Szapocznikow and Andrzej Wajda in this deep ...

Berlin Shuffle, by contrast, is set in late Weimar Germany. There are no major Jewish characters and the atmosphere is more like something from Brecht’s Threepenny Opera or the dark paintings by Max ...

For more than a century, interfaith marriage has functioned as a kind of Rorschach test within American Jewish life, alternately framed as an existential threat or a potential avenue for renewal.