Culture

When Jewish immigrants were detained, and Jews took to the streets

On Nov. 15, 1923, 2,000 Jews rallied at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to protest the detention of 3,000 of their relatives at Ellis Island.

Twitter account tells tragic tales of Jewish refugees killed after US turned them away

@Stl_Manifest, launched on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, tells how each passenger on the M.S. St. Louis was killed.

The Berlin Group Reviving Yiddish Music Lost in the Holocaust

The year was 1935, and Willy Rosen – a popular Jewish cabaret singer in Berlin – was performing a fun new song called, “At the Golden Snail Inn,” which he recorded in the basement of a synagogue for a Jewish recording label called Semer Records. Three years later, on Kristallnacht, the Nazis destroyed all of Semer’s […]