I did it all backward. Instead of taking my research trips before writing my book, like any normal historian would have, I’d waited. Only after I had completed my first draft of the book did I finally ...

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Anne Frank was not the only Jew who wrote a moving personal diary describing the horrors she experienced during WW II. Many were likely written, but only a few survived. Anne Frank’s is the most ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Until the 1960s, every generation had to discover vegetarianism and non-procreative sex on its own. Logically, you might assume that when our ancestors ...

rebellious teenage girl and a young poet - from the Vilna ghetto of Lithuania. A special concert version will be presented on Monday, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. at GREEN ROOM 42, Located in: YOTEL New ...

More than three-quarters of the 80,000 Jews who remained in Vilna under Nazi occupation were executed last month in a mass-slaughter which has no equal in Jewish history, according to an eye-witness ...

In Vilnius, Lithuania, an excavation of the Great Synagogue of Vilna has fully exposed the Aron Kodesh (Holy Ark) and the bimah (platform) that was destroyed 60 years ago by the Nazis and the Soviets.

‘As a young girl I took it for granted I would go to university and be a professional, that I would be an artist and a doctor!” exclaimed septuagenarian Mira Jedwabnik Van Doren. Though she’s at an ...

The Vilna Gaon had made an agreement with the trustees of his community that he was not to be summoned to a meeting unless it involved a proposed new communal regulation. Once, the trustees wanted to ...