Timothy W. Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He previously served as the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in the Concentration of History…
Pockets of militant Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. But those stories are not as widely known. Into The Forest tells one of them. Author Rebecca Frankel based the book on a series of in-depth interviews with Tania and Rochel Rabinowitz. Along with their parents, Morris and Miriam, they miraculously…
Inspired by her research for the hit podcast “Ultra,” Rachel Maddow (not Jewish) charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II,…
Since the end of the Second World War, there have been hundreds of books written about the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. It is probably the most investigated, most chronicled single event in human history (despite Holocaust deniers’ obscene claims). The four lists linked below give valuable guidance about the best of those books to…
‘The Postcard’ tells the story of a family devastated by the Holocaust and yet somehow restored by love and…
David de Jong is a Dutch-born journalist and author who now lives in Tel Aviv. His first book, “Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties”…
Tirzah Firestone is both an ordained rabbi — affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement — and a PhD analytical psychotherapist…
Ben M. Freeman is a gay Jewish author and internationally known educator. He focuses on…
A dark chapter in American history when the pseudoscience of eugenics was used to exclude Jews and others…
David Baddiel (56), an English comedian, novelist, and television presenter, is known for his work alongside comedian Rob Newman in The Mary Whitehouse Experience . He’s also known for his partnership with comedian Frank Skinner. Baddiel is a screenwriter and published novelist, having written the children’s novels The Parent Agency, The Person Controller, AniMalcolm, Birthday…
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed