Church records tell of a Jewish woman's 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for 'St. Esther's Feast'

In her new book 'The Jews of Summer,' Sandra Fox explores the changing values and dynamics of US Jewry based on an institution that for many is synonymous with coming of age

In his award-winning book, Prof. Sasha Senderovich mixes a rich, centuries-old body of Yiddish folklore with early 20th-century events to define a notoriously nebulous Jewish group

Mark Auerbach works to preserve the memory of his relative Alexander Goode, an army chaplain who gave away his lifejacket and calmed panicked soldiers after a German U-boat attack

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Germans are presented with the Obermayer Award for projects like restoring landmarks and coming up with creative Holocaust youth education

In 'Sassoon,' Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals

One of the rare sites with written evidence matching it to its Bible location, the massive 32-acre park is free for all and boasts layers of history down to King Solomon's time

'How Jews Became Citizens' at NYC's Center for Jewish History gives access to a trove of ancient documents showing the ever-changing status of local Jewish communities

Captivating, meticulously researched historical work brings to light myriad ways banking dynasty's 'silent' mothers, daughters, and wives exerted key soft power for three centuries

Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, has a Jewish community 2,300 years old and is mentioned in the Talmud, but a flight to urban areas has left just a dozen Jewish residents