European Jewish History

Jews lucky enough to survive the Holocaust but found themselves behind the Iron Curtain experienced an oppression in many ways...

When Rabbi Meir Shapiro began daf yomi in 1923 did he envision it attracting hundreds of thousands of participants and...

Rabbi Meir Shapiro envisioned Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin as a magnificent institution spiritually and physically, the latter a revolutionary idea in...

Despite 1,000 years of Jewish history in Europe, very few Jewish cemeteries are extant. This is the result of concerted...

: As Rommel threatened to conquer Palestine a rabbi laid the cornerstone of a new yeshiva, to the dismay of...

When Stalin and Hitler signed a treaty in 1939, it opened the door for Hitler to begin WWII, seek world...

When the Slobodka yeshiva moved from Europe Palestine it was feared that other yeshivas would follow and Europe would be...

The events surrounding a soccer game in the 1920s served as a symbol of the hostilities created by the Versailles...

Schechter is credited with discovering the Cairo Genizah but it was really a little-known Jew by the name of Yosef...

Jews fought on both sides in World War I, including 350,000 for the Russians and 140,000 for the Austrians and...