BROOKLYN — As of today, hundreds of years of Brooklyn Jewish history are at your fingertips. And it’s not just Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen. The website brooklynjewish.org, the culmination of ...

Jews have played pivotal roles throughout key moments in American history. Throughout 2026, monthly online conversations with Jewish historians will journey across American and Jewish history.

PIECES OF BOSTON HISTORY SAVED AS WE MARK JEWISH AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH ARE JOHN ATWATER SHOWS US HOW A NEW ARCHIVE IS GIVING US A REVEALING LOOK INTO THE CITY’S PAST. THEY ARE THOROUGHFARES WE KNOW ...

Explore the Center for Jewish History—home to the largest Jewish archive in the country. Located just a few steps away from New York City’s Union Square, the Center for Jewish History is home to the ...

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 ...

Long Island’s first Jewish congregation was established in 1875 in Breslau, modern-day Lindenhurst, where the group purchased a half-acre of land in a cemetery. The Island’s first synagogue was built ...

Few words are as disturbing to Jews as the word “expulsion.” For Jews, it is a word laden with the weight of terrible memories that reach back thousands of years. In the chronicle of Jewish biblical ...

Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing Judaism and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago ...

The writer Mike Gold, whose “Jews Without Money” was arguably the most influential literary novel by a Jewish American in the mid-20th century, was a committed anti-Zionist. His funny and often tragic ...

A line of people wound toward the doors of UNLV’s Greenspun Hall on Wednesday night, clutching in their hands copies of “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the ...