European Jewish History

In the 1930s, Roman Vishnaic went through Eastern Europe taking pictures of Jewish life, later collected in albums such as...

In the early thirteenth century Ashkenazic Jews living in Germany, Austria, Bohemia and other Germanic lands began to speak a...

Jews of the Vineland, NJ farming community In Europe in the 19th century, there were three...

The Hasidic Movement began when bands of wondering Jews traveled to remote Jewish communities to teach and inspire the uneducated...

One of the worst parts of the Czarist Cantonist Decree is that it turned Jew against Jew, and created a...

Czar Alexander gave Jews incentives to convert. But during his incentive period more Russians converted to Judaism than Jewish to...

When the Czars decreed that every Jew had to have a last name (in order to identify and control them),...

Napoleon attempted to revive the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of Judaism in Biblical and Talmudic times, and through it...

The Chassidic movement was able to reinvigorate among European belief in the Messiah, which had been toned down after so...

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Bertitchev became famous for always defending otherwise indefensible Jews and see the good in every situation.