A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot to threaten, intimidate, and massacre Jews made common in late 19th and early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe. Last week, in the continent ...

I still remember the first time I visited European Jewish communities as CEO of ADL. It was about a decade ago, early in my new role. In Paris, I stood inside the Hypercacher kosher supermarket, where ...

The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn’t truly account for the experience of Palestinians. German Jewish refugees looking ...

Demonstrators carry a banner reading “Against antisemitism, racism and the extreme right” during a rally at the Square des Martyrs Juifs in Paris on Nov. 12. (Michel Stoupak/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Cataloguing Jews and Jewish institutions for political purposes is not neutral.The post Mapping Jews echoes history’s darkest hours appeared first on JNS.org.

Many Ashkenazi Jews assume their ancestors came straight from ancient Israel to Germany and Eastern Europe. But that leaves out a huge, often overlooked chapter. When their ancestors left Israel, they ...