In 'Before Evil,' out on April 26, author and historian Brandon Gauthier paints a picture of typical, if somewhat misfit, youths who enjoyed reading and were shy around girls
Out Friday, the movie tells how Britain used the body of a dead vagrant to trick Hitler into dropping Nazi defenses in Sicily, enabling its capture and turning the tide of the war
Academics, curators and other types of historians studying everything from museum storage to environmental history win $300,000 from Tel Aviv-based foundation
Putin's lesson justifying his decision to recognize breakaway regions gets some facts right, but ignores the lion's share of Eastern European history in service of his objectives
The Israeli landscape is dotted with architecture from the Mamelukes, a group of slaves who were taught the art of war before turning on their masters and ruling the region
Sensing impending disaster, the Wiener Library's founder gathered evidence of German antisemitism from the 1920s, making an argument against the Nazis before Hitler came to power
The Israel Film Archive opens a trove of films previously closed to the public that shows wars, elections and vintage advertisements, thanks to a yearslong $10M digitization effort
A German-Jewish grandmother's Poesiealbum is one of few that made it through WWII, and shows warm turn-of-the-century friendships between an Orthodox Jew and her Gentile neighbors
A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library shows that even where fascists failed to gain power, their ideas and supporters had a devastating impact
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