The forgotten German who saved Jews in Japan - and the diary that resurfaced 80 years later
A child’s wartime diary has reopened the story of Willy Rudolf Foerster, a German industrialist who helped Jewish refugees reach Japan.
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Saved from Nazi-occupied Prague, thousands of Torah scrolls find new life through a Satmar scribe
On This Day: Final living hostages return from Gaza, as Trump addresses Knesset following ceasefire
Over 50 years later, Saul Bellow’s Israel observations remain strikingly relevant - review
'Godfather of denim’: an Italian designer whose Jewish father was murdered at Auschwitz
Adriano Goldschmied, who died April 5 at 82, following a battle with cancer in a hospital in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy, credited himself with founding or developing at least 50 jean brands.
Researchers say they’ve traced Shakespeare’s London lodgings at last
The precise location of William Shakespeare’s only London home was identified in Blackfriars after researchers uncovered a previously unknown floorplan.
Newly published documents belonging to Israel's first prime minister reveal eerily relevant message
Ben-Gurion recognized early on what became a well-known reality in the following decades: front lines that reach population centers, and the home front becoming a critical component of the war.
‘The Jewish Revolt: A Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition’ turns memory into witness - review
Auerbach arrived in Warsaw in 1933 as a journalist and has dedicated her life to remembering Holocaust victims.
This month in Jewish history: History, memory, destiny
A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.
Hampshire College, incubator of Yiddish Book Center, pioneer in Holocaust studies, to close
The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates on land purchased from the college in Amherst, Massachusetts.
