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The Haifa Municipal Band playing in the 1933 Bikurim parade. (Photo/ GPO via Wikipedia)
Posted inShavuot

When Haifa was party central at Shavuot

Rachel NeimanISRAEL21c logo by Rachel Neiman and ISRAEL21c May 27, 2020
Ben Cole as President Charles Linbergh (left) and John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America." (HBO)
Posted inHistory

FDR had a Jewish strategy much like the one in ‘Plot Against America’

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
German immigrant Edward Kusel opened photo galleries and variety shops in California’s Central Valley. (Photo/Courtesy Arcadia Publishing)
Posted inBooks

New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush

by Liz Harris May 21, 2020July 8, 2020
From the cover of “House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family” by Hadley Freeman
Posted inHistory

Two authors delight in the remnants of generations past

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 8, 2020
The staff of the Jewish Bulletin (J.'s former name) in 1980: managing editor Geoffrey Fisher (top row, left), assistant editor Phil Bronstein (top row, second from right) and ad manager Charles Block (front row), with colleagues (clockwise, from top left) Brunhilda Sierra, Peggy Isaak, Mary Fong, Marjorie Glazer and Nancy Royfe.
Posted inOpinion

If Jewish newspapers disappear, the results would be devastating

Jonathan D. Sarna by Jonathan D. Sarna April 14, 2020
In this illustration from a 1349 book by the French chronicler Gilles li Muisis, residents of a town stricken by the plague burn Jews, who were blamed for causing the disease. (WIKIMEDIA)
Posted inHistory

How Jews have fared during pandemics throughout history

by Gabriel Greschler March 19, 2020March 19, 2020
Detail from “Do not forgive them, oh Lord, for they do know what they do! (after Luke 23:34)” by Arthur Szyk, part of the Magnes Collection. (Courtesy Magnes)
Posted inCulture

New Magnes exhibit: ‘Soldier in art’ Arthur Szyk blasted tyranny in stunning works of graphic art

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat March 3, 2020March 3, 2020
The cover of 1933's bilingual Yiddish-English cookbook “Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife.”
Posted inHistory

Crisco and Jews: A story 4,000 years in the making

Rachel B. Gross by Rachel B. Gross March 2, 2020March 2, 2020
Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
Posted inHistory

This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
“I’d like Netanyahu to be thrown out. He’s a crook,” Benny Morris said last week. (Wikimedia-Aude CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inBay Area

In Bay Area, candid Israeli historian Benny Morris sounds off on genocide and politics

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman February 24, 2020February 29, 2020

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