Long before Jewface arguments, Jewish comedians were playing up to stereotypes

Julian Rose, an American comedian popularised the early form of Jewish caricature comedy

PM to mark 80 years since parliament learned of Holocaust

On 17 December 1942, Parliament spontaneously fell silent after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden confirmed that the Jews of Europe were being exterminated

From the archive: The Yom Kippur War in Israel and the UK

From the JC archive on October 12, 1973

From the JC archive: November 15, 1918

Peace, pogroms and starvation in Syria

From the JC archive: November 2, 1956

The Suez crisis, a schoolgirl’s experiment and a synagogue stowaway

From the JC archive: October 22, 1985

Murder of a hostage; Sugar bucks the trend; Margaret Thatcher backs the JC

From the JC archive: October 19 1962

Currently featured in the BBC series Ridley Road, here's the JC's report on the trial of British Nazi Colin Jordan - and in Germany, Nazis go on trial for the murder of tens of thousands of people

From the JC Archive: October 5 1900

Dreyfus’s plight, Boer war soldiers and the election 

From the JC archive: October 4 1974

Three circus clowns and a first ‘girl rabbi’

A hijack, a church and a ban for Civilisation 24pt if copy is long

Hidden treasures from the archives shed light on history

A new initiative from the Board of Deputies will bring together material on Jewish history from all over the UK

The JC Archive Blog No.25 – Can Sun-Beds Cure?

We wonder if some of the ads on our health pages today will be judged so harshly in 100 years' time?

The JC Archive Blog No.24 – Eleven newsbites from 79 years ago

It’s the end of the year once again. Picking up The Jewish Chronicle from 22nd December 1939, the emphasis is, of-course, on the war

The JC Archive Blog No.23 – Passover Food and Palestinian trips

Pesach seems a while away but it's never too early to start preparing...

Lost First World War hero uncle discovered in the JC archive

Lawrence Lever would never have known his great uncle, who was killed in 1918, existed

The JC Archive Blog No.22 – The Jews expelled from Basle, Switzerland

We think of Switzerland as neutral, but in the 1800s the Swiss had some rather troubling views

The JC Archive Blog No.22 – The Jews expelled from Basle, Switzerland

We think of Switzerland as neutral, but in the 1800s the Swiss had some rather troubling views

The JC Archive Blog No.21 – Music in the Jewish Chronicle

As readers were preparing for the yomtovim in 1907, one rabbi was worrying about the music sung in shul services

The JC Archive Blog No.20 – Purely personal

Seven ads form the 1940s that will catch your attention immediately - are certainly piqued the interest of our resident archive blogger

The JC Archive Blog No.19 – What are the Jews to do?

A question asked in an article written in 1949 is as interesting and relevant today as it was almost 70 years ago, writes our resident archive blogger