Modern Jewish History

Temple Valley Beth Shalom decorated for Shavuot. Photo published under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. When...

Eddie Jacobson and Harry Truman in their haberdashery shop in Kansas City, Missouri Alben Barkley, vice...

Churchill, Truman and Stalin meet in Potsdam after the war. In honor of the state of...

IDF soldiers' honor guard for a fallen soldier in the War of Independence These few weeks...

"The Jew's Sow," a 600-year-old sculpture on Regensburg Cathedral. The sculpture faces the old Jewish quarter...

Jewish victims of the einsatzgruppen. Photo courtesy of The History Place. The most difficult topic certainly...

Moses Mendelssohn, 1729-1786 History tends to judge people far differently than their contemporaries do. Many people...

Ben Gurion as a volunteer in the Jewish Legion 1918 It is 3922 years since the...

Gilad Shalit, IDF soldier held captive by Hamas since June 2006 The issue of the redemption...

German bankers carrying sacks of money, 1923. Photo by Georg Pahl. Published with permission from the...