Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish ...

Holocaust survivor and Boston University alumnus Sidney Handler recounted his experiences living and struggling to survive in Poland during Nazi occupation during World War II in a lecture on ...

Three exhibits for YIVO's centennial celebration showcase the breadth of the institute's collection and its own history.

At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf.

Nina Jacobs’ story begins in a Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, shortly after the Nazi invasion. Her mother was pregnant with her, which would have meant certain death for her mother if the Nazis ...

Seattle has a “poet plumber” who writes verses and roundelays in Yiddish. He is Sam Grodstein, Seattle Talmud Torah director and Seattle resident for the past twenty-five years.

Only in the Land of Israel can the Jewish People become the holy Nation which brings the word of Hashem to the world, as the verse says, “For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah and the word of ...

His father inherited the estate of Zurov in the region of Vilna, Lithuania, and there he was born in 1863. Educated by his mother and at the University of Kharkov, Russia, he developed Socialistic ...

He had served as rabbi also in Connecticut and Ohio. He came to the United States from Vilna, Poland, where he was graduated from the Kovno Theological Seminary. He has written a book on Hebrew law.

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