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After years languishing on these shelves in our office, the full 127-year archives of J., the Jewish Bulletin and the Emanu-El are now available online. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
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Digitizing J.’s archives was a mission to save Jewish history 

by Sue Fishkoff February 14, 2022February 14, 2022
Eugen Engel in the 1930s at the composer's monument in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
Posted inTheater

Rediscovered in a basement, Jewish composer’s prewar opera will now be staged in Germany

by Dan Pine February 7, 2022February 8, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
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From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Footage from the Lumière brothers, capturing a train pulling into Jaffa station in 1896, is accessible on the Israel Film Archive website.
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The Israel Film Archive collects more than a century of Israeli historical footage online. Here are the highlights.

by Karen Chernick and JTA January 5, 2022
The kinara, the main symbol of Kwanzaa, was inspired by the Hanukkah menorah. (Photo/Forward-iStock)
Posted inOpinion

How Kwanzaa’s creator modified a menorah — and helped Black Jews

Robin Washington by Robin Washington and Forward December 27, 2021December 27, 2021
Reese Lichtenstein and her grandmother, taken shortly before Irene Wolff’s death in January 2020. Reese has her grandmother’s image tattooed on her forearm. (Photo/Petal and Stone-Nan Patriquin); Part of the porcelain set kept by the Moritz family in Germany.
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From Germany to America: A family’s legacy, preserved in porcelain

Alix Wall by Alix Wall December 23, 2021February 1, 2022
San Francisco's Chinatown in 1965. (Photo/Flickr-Roger W CC BY-SA 2.0)
Posted inHistory

Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
Pages from "The Last Jews of Penang" show the Malaysian Jewish community's former synagogue.
Posted inCulture

New graphic novel tells the story of Malaysia’s lost Jewish community

by Jordyn Haime and JTA December 6, 2021December 6, 2021
Renaissance painting of a young woman cutting off the head of man with a sword
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This Hanukkah, celebrate the holiday’s forgotten heroes: Women

headshot of Alan Avery-Pecklogo of The Conversation by Alan Avery-Peck and The Conversation December 1, 2021December 1, 2021
A Thanksgiving greeting card from 1908
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From our archives: Newspapers of Thanksgivings past — 1909, 1924, 1958

by J. Editorial Board November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

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