Entrepreneurial 19th-century Jewish immigrants reshaped the garmnet industry and paved the way for today's fashion superstars. From jeans to attached collars to Hollywood glamour to preppy clothes and schmatte chic, Jews have defined the American look. ...
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Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela roamed widely across the medieval world, from Narbonne to Cairo, meeting Rabbanites and Karaites along the way. ...

You probably already know that 17th-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza was radical for his time—from his notorious excommunication from the

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Norman Gelb is the author of many works of history, including The Berlin Wall, Less Than Glory, Desperate Venture, and

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Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent many years as a Washington Post reporter and editor, now serves as

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With the timely release of the new DVD of my film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg upon the

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In 1923, when Maxwell House Coffee signed on with the Joseph Jacobs Advertising agency in New York, it was already

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Stuart Eizenstat and Samuel Dubbin have very different points of view about how to handle Holocaust insurance claims. Travel in

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  Kaskel’s Chutzpah By Gary Stein   “Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked. “The district

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One of the first things that six-year-old Alysa Stanton noticed when her family moved into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in

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Pillars of Sand The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland Shlomo Sand Verso Books 2012,

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