From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

Anti-Semitism is nothing new. Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir said her father boarded up their door to protect the family against drunken Cossacks that came to beat up and murder Jews in ...

Culture Whether fleeing Nazis, Cossacks, wildfires or ICE, we all need a ‘go bag’ Across the years and miles, we carry the weight of the difficult choices that have to be made ...

One of the most curious episodes of Jews bearing arms in a military capacity occurred 250 years ago in the Russian Empire under the Romanovs. It was Potemkin's Israelovsky Regiment.

Masked Cossacks confronted the visitors who tried to commemorate Stalin’s victims in Sandarmokh, August 5, 2024. In the northwestern Russian republic of Karelia, an annual commemoration for ...

One hundred days after Hamas’s attack, looking back at a candid and intense late-night talk with two prominent authors, Joshua Cohen and Ruby Namdar.

They were killed in vast numbers by Cossacks in 1648; by Russian pogroms in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1899 an anti-Dreyfusard journal asked its readers what they would like to do with Jews.

Jewish pilgrims flock to historic Ukrainian city despite war with Russia Thousands of Hasidic Jews visit Uman to see the grave of Rabbi Nachman for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, ignoring the ...

In the story, Lyutov – Babel’s alter-ego who hid his Jewish identity from the Bolshevik-supporting Jew-hating Cossacks with whom he served as a correspondent – discovers the dying son of a ...

The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone ...