MyHeritage.com is an online genealogy site based in Bnei Atarot, Israel. MyHeritage.com was founded by an Israeli Startup, team of people with a passion for genealogy and a strong grasp of Internet technology. The homepage features a ‘Create a Family Tree’ tool where visitors can enter some information about themselves and their parents and begin the process of [...]

“The Light from the West – The Life and Times of the Chasam Sofer” by Zelig Schachnowitz, the inspiring biography of the Chasam Sofer. The Chasam Sofer, Rabbi Moshe Sofer, is one of the most distinguished personages West-European Orthodox Jewry produced in the last two centuries. As his contemporaries decreed, Moshe emes v’Toraso emes: Moshe [...]

“IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation” by Edwin Black  (Kindle Edition) IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM’s strategic alliance with Nazi Germany — beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As [...]

“Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World’s Most Elite Counterterrorism Units”  by Aaron Cohen (Kindle Edition) One of Israel’s most highly respected Special Forces Unit is called “Sayeret Duvdevan“. The name “Duvdevan” is something of an inside joke to Israelis; it literally means “cherry”. As most native-born Israelis know, [...]

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH) is the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States.  In 1961 at Hollywood High School, a group of Survivors taking English as a Second Language classes found one another and shared their experiences. They discovered that each of them had a photograph, concentration camp uniform, or other precious [...]

Daily nugget of ancient wisdom on life, relationships, ethics, and spirituality. What did the Jews have to do with Columbus? How about Louis Armstrong? Where in the Talmud can you find a reference to airplanes and telescopes? What are the top five inventions by Jews that you can’t live without? What does ancient Jewish wisdom have [...]

Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles - A Companion Walking Tour Millions have been moved by the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…,” but few know the story behind them. Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles, which marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, is [...]

CJH Digital Collections provides access to the digital assets of the Center for Jewish History (CJH) and its five partner organizations, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The American Jewish Historical Society, founded in 1892, has extensive collections [...]

“Helga Deen, the Last Night“, is a 32-page graphic novel based on a true story, created and directed by the international award-winning director Dario Picciau and writer Roberto Malini. The Holocaust is an extreme event in human history. The wave of death that Nazism brought with it swept away millions of innocent lives. Helga Deen [...]

The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the [...]

Maimonides (Jewish Encounters) by Sherwin B. Nuland (Kindle Edition) Maimonides, one of the preeminent personalities of medieval Jewish history, was a jurist, philosopher, expert in Jewish law, physician at the court of Saladin and a respected and dedicated communal leader. Given all that, it’s difficult to understand the decision to present Maimonides’s legacy primarily through [...]

Terra Incognita – A novel about the Crypto-Jews of Catalonia by Libi Astaire (Kindle Edition) Terra Incognita. For the medieval Catalan navigators the term meant an uncharted territory that inspired either fear or the thrill of adventure. But for the characters of  this new novel by award-winning author Libi Astaire, “terra incognita” is a place [...]

The Eichmann Trial (Jewish Encounters) by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Kindle Edition) For the Eichmann trial’s 50th anniversary, Emory Holocaust studies professor Lipstadt (History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving) trains her gaze on this watershed event in Jewish history. Israeli attorney general Gideon Hausner, a commercial lawyer, lacked criminal or courtroom expertise, [...]

‘Geto‘  in Venetian dialect refers to a foundry, usually for making mortars or cannons.  The Venetian word ‘getar‘, ‘to cast,’ or ‘to smelt,’  is the accepted origin of the word ‘ghetto‘.  It was in the district of  Cannaregio that the first Venetian foundry was located. In old documents,  the area was described as an ‘unhealthy‘ [...]

Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren (unabridged) is presented by Blackstone Audio. Winner of the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. Six Days of War is the most comprehensive history ever published of the six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967 that transformed the world. “Oren brings a novelist’s [...]