Unearthed journals reveal how the Jewish novelist who died by suicide in 1942 foresaw 'dangerous, embattled times' in the 1930s, his mental health declining with Hitler's advance

The mill in Canneto sull’Oglio is again generating green energy, over a century after Hermann Einstein made the village one of the first in its region with electric streetlamps

The owner of the largest private collection of Herzl memorabilia shows how advocates of Jewish statehood advanced the cause through pavilions at international exhibitions from 1904

In the bestseller 'All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days,' author Rebecca Donner recounts the true story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, who gave her life to fight fascism

In 'The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,' Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother's 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins

Endowment headquartered at Tel Aviv University; 9 scholars will get accolade plus $300,000 apiece for their achievements in study of human past

Amy Shreeve is a self-described descendant of Mormon pioneer immigrants and 'Irish famine immigrants' whose love of Yiddish and history led her to an enchanting project

Jewish scholar who focused on ancient Greece said he was inspired by the 'remarkable assumption that the human being is not trivial'

Polish historian Katarzyna Person quotes firsthand accounts to reveal the bleak reality that set the stage for the creation of the infamous Jewish Order Service

While the aristocracy is often lauded for the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler, evidence in a compensation claim sought by the Hohenzollern house may expose a closet full of skeletons