From German street food to an American symbol, the hot dog’s rise is a story of immigration, innovation and affordability. As ...

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S.

The historical significance of the dates August 29-31 to the global Jewish community can hardly be overemphasised. The three-day conference held at Basel, Switzerland in 1897, was to usher in a whole ...

M oments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish destinations I’ve visited. I mention Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says.

A New York bagel is a wonderful vessel for cream cheese, lox and other fixings. Popular bagel flavors include sesame, salt, ...

After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Third Reich entrusted Polish police forces to introduce and enforce new restrictions on the Jews. “The first phase was the beginning of the inhuman ...

The hoopla surrounding Polin’s 10-year anniversary reflects its impact on Poland, a society that only in recent decades has confronted the history of its Jewish community and the 3 million ...

Sugihara was based in Kaunas, which had a large, prosperous Jewish community of around 32,000 people when the Second World War began. This population grew between 1939-40, as thousands of Jewish ...

Shmueli, a Polish Jew born in Lodz in 1908, focuses on the storied Jewish community of Poland during the 1920s, when it was home to 3.3 million Jews, representing nine percent of its population.

The Collis family immigrated to the United States from Bialystok, then a part of Prussia, now the largest city in northeastern Poland. “Mosie” was still a boy when the Great Depression began.

Judi Roth grew up in Elmira, N.Y., never having known her father’s parents. Her father, Michael Novice, a Polish Holocaust survivor, escaped the Warsaw ghetto at 13 and lived through three ...

The name stems from the Polish name Białystok and followed Jewish immigrants to New York City in the late 1800s. The bialy quickly became a staple of Jewish bakeries in the Lower East Side and ...