This week in Jewish history: Yearning for Zion
A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
History
Winter in Jerusalem: Valleys, rails, and the city’s stories
Jack the Ripper identified as Jewish barber Aaron Kosminski, historian claims
Inside the Jewish Brigade’s untold Holocaust survivor rescue operations
'Post' writer rediscovers grave of fallen British World War I hero in Jerusalem
HISTORICAL AFFAIRS: Private Sam Greyman's journey took him from Russia to Leeds to Jerusalem.
'Jewish Roots of American Liberty': Explaining the Jewish connection to the American story - review
Jewish Roots of American Liberty explains and illuminates the tight historical, political, and cultural connection between the US and the Jewish people.
How Nazi categories of ‘half-Jews’ and ‘quarter-Jews’ still decide who is a Jew - study
Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.
Carrying the Torch of Remembrance From My Great-Grandfather
As we mark eighty years since liberation, I hope Britain will continue to lead in education, in confronting antisemitism, and in defending the values that bind free societies together.
On This Day: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting US into WWII
The infamous Japanese surprise attack on the US naval base in Hawaii 80 years ago became immortalized as a "day which will live in infamy."
Margaret Thatcher biography: All about the UK prime minister in one centenary volume - book review
There is no doubt that Thatcher admired Jews for their community spirit, entrepreneurial skills, scholarly prowess, and general contribution to British society.
Mastering the short story: Twelve vignettes capture America’s Jewish world - book review
'You’ve Told Me Before,' proves, if proof were needed after her first wonderful foray into this specialized literary field, that Jennifer Anne Moses is a master of the short story genre.
'The Accomplices': Restaging history of efforts to save European Jews from the Holocaust
Inside the creative process of a play that forces us to reflect on what happens when the world looks away – from the 1940s to today.
Hugo Boss became wealthy off SS uniform production, study finds
In an article by Dr. Magdalena Ickiewicz-Sawicka, Hugo Boss's success is attributed to being the "creator of Nazi elegance," supplying uniforms to the Hitler Youth and the SS.
500-year-old Bible map inadvertently shaped modern ideas of national borders, study asserts
Study author, University of Cambridge Professor Nathan MacDonald, described this map's inclusion as "simultaneously one of publishing’s greatest failures and triumphs.”
