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Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable book
A rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptation
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Schama: ‘The Jewish world is in this extraordinary situation of being doubly de-housed’
Historian Sir Simon Schama speaks to the JC after his appearance in Book Week
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Einstein ‘E=mc squared’ equation letter goes up for auction
A previous letter written by Einstein featuring the famous equation sold for $1.2 million in 2021
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Revealed: Nazi financial fixer who funded Palestinian terror
The untold story of how François Genoud, a Swiss banker, executed a secret plan to eliminate Jews from the Middle East
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National Library of Israel to preserve 200,000 recordings of Hamas massacres for posterity
The huge cache of videos, photos and text messages documents the atrocities unfolding in real time
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Einstein's secret plan to rescue academic targeted by Nazis revealed in new letter
A letter written by the physicist is up for auction with the proceeds going to Oxfam
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Ancient Hebrew prayer book with links to famed German rabbi sells for 14 times it's estimate
The manuscript of Tikune Shabat sold for £71,250 at auction
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The J-pop model using TikTok to share stories of unknown people buried in cemeteries
Ex-JFS student Jono Namara has already racked up nearly 100,000 likes on TikTok
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Famous Carlisle Magen David window saved after local campaign
Former MP Eric Martlew noticed the broken pane in the old Carr’s biscuit factory two years ago then set out to raise £2,000 for its refurb
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'Inspiring' new evidence shows how Jews thrived in York after antisemitic 1190 massacre
A trove of documents reveals how the city’s Jewish residents lived and worked alongside their Christian neighbours, mostly harmoniously, in the early 1200s
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Back to the Borscht Belt! Celebrating the golden era of Jewish vacationland in the Catskills
A new festival will recapture the heady days of Jewish vacationland in the Catskills
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Albert Einstein told other Jews that he didn't believe in Torah
A letter written by the physicist is set to go under the hammer in the US
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Holocaust survivor and Army veteran receives surprise war medals on 100th birthday
Henny Franks fled Nazi persecution in Cologne, western Germany, on the kindertransport as a teenager
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Swiss museum launches probe over 'king of clowns' link with Hitler and Nazi's
The relationship between Grock and Hitler is being investigated by a Swiss museum
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Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery
Diplomat Meryl Frank spent years tracing the wartime fate of her Lithuanian relative. But the truth was sitting on her bookshelf
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Farewell to whistleblowing mensch Daniel Ellsberg
Tributes idolise the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers - but attitudes now towards national security are radically different from those in 1971
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