With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the preeminent centers for the research and preservation of the history ...

One of the curiosities in “The Story of Hebrew” by Lewis Glinert (Princeton University Press) is that the author manages to write a history of the Hebrew language without using a single Hebrew letter ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...

This article forms a broad overview of the history of Judaism, from its beginnings until the present day. The history of Judaism is inseparable from the history of Jews themselves. The early part of ...

Two courses in Old Testament literature and Hebrew history will be given in the School of Religion at the University of Kansas, with the full college credit. The courses will be under the direction of ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published Feb. 29, 2016. This year is Leap Year in both the secular Gregorian calendar — the one most of the world goes by — and in the Hebrew calendar.

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants, and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and routine. It was horrifying and shocking to the extreme, yet, given the ...