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In Vienna, updated Freud Museum slips in an exhibition space and Holocaust memorial
By Rich Blaustein
Beset by challenges during the pandemic, the half-century-old institution is seeing new life after expanding its focus and seeking out younger visitors with a massive renovation
Sigmund Freud's visitors' room couch. (Hertha Hurnaus/ Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung)
June 24, 2023, 6:51 am
In Vienna, updated Freud Museum slips in an exhibition space and Holocaust memorial
Beset by challenges during the pandemic, the half-century-old institution is seeing new life after expanding its focus and seeking out younger visitors with a massive renovation
By Rich Blaustein
Dr. Haim Neria with the longest 'ilan' scroll in the world at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, June 11, 2023. (Uri Barkat)
June 12, 2023, 4:11 pm
Israel National Library unveils collection of 36 kabbalistic tree-like ‘maps of God’
At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs
By Charlie Summers
Alfred Moses stands in front of the Codex Sassoon, which he purchased for more than $30 million and will be donating it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. (Perry Bindelglass for The American Friends of ANU The Museum of the Jewish People via JTA)
June 2, 2023, 4:39 pm
Alfred Moses sees the Codex Sassoon he bought for over $30 million for the 1st time
Surrounded by family, the 93-year-old former US ambassador views the 1,200-year-old Bible, which he donated to the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv ‘for the Jewish people’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: 'Jewish Wedding' by Marco Marcuola of Venice, painted around 1780. (Wikimedia commons/ CC SA 4.0/ Moise Nedjar)
May 26, 2023, 9:44 am
Massive history book charts how the Jewish Diaspora reached all corners of the globe
In the 1,200-page fifth installment of the Posen Library series, Prof. Yosef Kaplan gives a thorough and colorful look at Jews’ cultural and geographical expansion from 1500-1750
By Rich Tenorio
Clockwise from left: Arthur Szyk, Maimonides, New Canaan,1950, Watercolor and gouache on paper. (Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, gift of Louis Werner); Moses Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah, Egypt, after 1168. (The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford); Guide of the Perplexed, Barcelona, 1347 or 1348, by Moses Maimonides. (The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen/ all images from the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition 'The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries')
May 23, 2023, 4:00 am
Legacy of 12th-century rabbi, doctor and thinker Moses Maimonides on display in NY
‘The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,’ a Yeshiva University exhibit, shows the far-reaching impact of one of the Middle Age’s most prolific Torah scholars
By Cathryn J. Prince
People take a knee as an organizer reads a prayer to the crowd of several hundred gathered during a Proud Boys rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon on September 26, 2020 (Maranie R. STAAB / AFP)
May 21, 2023, 8:50 pm
A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’
Polish-born academic Magda Teter’s new book, ‘Christian Supremacy,’ traces how a history of exclusion and dominance trickles down from Paul the Apostle to today’s Proud Boys
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Portrait of Sir Horace Phillips. (Courtesy of the British Foreign Office)
May 20, 2023, 8:59 am
UK posthumously honors Jewish diplomat blocked by Saudis in 1968 for being a Jew
19 years after his death, the British Foreign Office dedicates the ‘Phillips Room’ to Sir Horace Phillips, who overcame socioeconomic hurdles to become a long-serving ambassador
By Robert Philpot
Britain's then-prince Charles wears a kippah during the funeral of Shimon Peres at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, September 23, 2016. (Abir Sultan, Pool via AP, File)
May 6, 2023, 4:58 am
The Royal Family’s 800-year relationship with Britain’s Jews, in 7 historical tidbits
As the UK’s chief rabbi and Israel’s president attend King Charles’ coronation this Shabbat, a look at the ties that have historically bound the Crown to its Jewish subjects
By Robert Philpot
The tomb of Benjamin son of Jacob in Kfar Saba. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
April 15, 2023, 9:16 am
Follow in the footsteps of pilgrims to these holy tombs across Israel
Supplicants flock from far and wide to pray at the graves of prophets and scholars from the ancient Holy Land. Here is a guide to some of the commonly visited revered sites
By Aviva Bar-Am
'The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century,' by Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann. (Courtesy)
April 11, 2023, 10:24 pm
How Orient Express’s Baron Maurice de Hirsch changed the track of Jewish migration
In bio ‘The Baron,’ Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann takes a new approach to history-telling by following the man who helped resettle Jews in locales ranging from Istanbul to Argentina
By Rich Tenorio
The White Tower at the Tower of London. (© Historic Royal Palaces)
March 11, 2023, 5:49 am
Why the Tower of London holds a paradoxical place in Medieval England’s Jewish story
New research by Dr. Rory MacLellan, who led a 2-year project at Historic Royal Palaces, paints iconic fortress as a place of imprisonment, and sanctuary, for 13th-century Jews
By Robert Philpot
Detail from an 1887 portrait of Rachel Sassoon Beer by Henry Jones Thaddeus. (Private collection. London/ Formerly in the Siegfried Sassoon Collection)
March 9, 2023, 4:12 am
Long overlooked, great women of the Sassoon dynasty get their due in new exhibit
One of the world’s greatest dynasties was also powered by women, whose tales are now told through the family’s magnificent art collection at NYC’s Jewish Museum through August 13
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustration showing Jews burning during the Inquisition (public domain)
March 6, 2023, 4:48 pm
Inspired by Purim heroine Esther, Inquisition-era crypto-Jews feasted in her honor
Church records tell of a Jewish woman’s 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ‘St. Esther’s Feast’
By Ronit Treatman
Campers at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, Wingdale, New York. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
February 23, 2023, 2:59 am
Did American Jews create historic summer camps – or was it vice versa?
In her new book ‘The Jews of Summer,’ Sandra Fox explores the changing values and dynamics of US Jewry based on an institution that for many is synonymous with coming of age
By PHILISSA CRAMER
'How the Soviet Jew Was Made' by Sasha Senderovich. (Courtesy)
February 11, 2023, 8:56 am
‘How the Soviet Jew Was Made’: A tale of wandering, oppression, language and lore
In his award-winning book, Prof. Sasha Senderovich mixes a rich, centuries-old body of Yiddish folklore with early 20th-century events to define a notoriously nebulous Jewish group
By JP O’ Malley
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