The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Jews’ share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further, according to a landmark new demographic study. The study ...

In Amsterdam is located the Portuguese Synagogue and Huis de Pinto; the latter was a former city mansion inhabited by the leading Amsterdam family dynasty of Portuguese-Jewish merchant bankers ...

In fact, medieval Europe was no bastion of whiteness ... Kim and her generation of medievalists argue they also mark the beginning of European racism. Jews weren’t just singled out for their religious ...

"Jews have always been a small minority in Slovenian history. That is why it is exceptional that a medieval synagogue has been preserved in Maribor. Namely: there are not many European cities that ...

Under the auspices of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers, the European Association for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (APEJ ...

Jan. 27 is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and genocide is still a tragic reality. Did the Holocaust ...

LARNACA, Cyprus — Governments across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism that’s driving thousands of Jews to abandon the continent, the leader of ...

(JTA) — A 700-year-old Jewish prayerbook from Germany, offered for sale by a French Jewish organization to shore up its finances, sold at auction on Tuesday for $8.3 million. Known as the ...