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Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal.
Posted inCulture

This historian is preserving North African Jewish music from a bygone era

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 15, 2021March 15, 2021
Naomi Newman as Reb Eli in the upcoming Zoom play "God of Vengeance." (Photo/Courtesy Newman)
Posted inTheater

A queer, heretical Yiddish play too edgy for 1907 lives again on Zoom

by Patricia Corrigan March 9, 2021September 14, 2022
Alon Shaya (right) helped Steven Fenves experience the taste of his pre-Holocaust childhood. (Photos/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rush Jagoe)
Posted inUncategorized

Star chef Alon Shaya helps a Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from his youth

by Margaret Littman and JTA March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
Posted inCulture

Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021
Philippe Tlokinski as Stan Ulam in "Adventures of a Mathematician."
Posted inFilm

Ethics and science and the Manhattan Project in ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ 

by Michael Fox February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
Stan Lee with racks of Marvel comics in New York, June 15, 1978. (Photo/JTA-Santi Visalli-Getty Images)
Posted inBooks, Culture, Comics, History

Stan Lee’s complex legacy gets even more complex in new biography

Julian Voloj by Julian Voloj and JTA February 22, 2021
A chance encounter between a law professor and a Holocaust survivor prompted a feel-good story (which may or may not be true) to circulate online. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

Is Bonne Maman an anti-Nazi jam? The internet wants to think so.

Gabe FriedmanPhilissa Cramer by Gabe Friedman, Philissa Cramer and JTA February 18, 2021
French banker David de Rothschild at a meeting of the World Jewish Congress in Berlin, Sept. 2014. (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inAnalysis

Who are the Rothschilds today? Here’s the long, non-laser-filled answer.

by Harvey D. Shapiro and Forward February 1, 2021January 3, 2024
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Why we need to commemorate the Shoah twice every year

Arthur Shostak by Arthur Shostak January 25, 2021
Journalist Dave Pell (second from right) with his late father Joseph Pell (center) and their family. 
Posted inNews

Families of Holocaust survivors see historical parallels in the news

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 25, 2021January 26, 2021

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