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A Voice from Salonika

A 19th-century Ladino memoir, published last year, depicts Salonikan Jews tyrannized by a despotic rabbinic ruling class that benefited from exorbitant taxes and fees.“Hitler’s Reign of Terror”

A 1934 documentary of Nazi oppression might have galvanized America against Hitler; but under pressure from Germany, the film was banned. Fallen Soldier

Boruch Spiegel, who was one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, escaped the Nazis via the sewers, only to return to the city to fight with Polish partisans a year later.Israel’s Interests in Syria

"Israel would be better served by having a failed state next door than by having a strong, Iranian-backed entity there."Another Crime of Passion

Most of the Jewish characters in the History Channel's The Bible look like "imports from Texas."  But Caiaphas and company are made to appear distinctively Jewish. Archeology on the Battlefield

From the Iraqi Revolt of 1920 to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, war and revolution have dictated the focus of archeological research in the Arab and Muslim Middle East.Beef with the Butcher

In 1902, working-class Jewish women in New York rioted to enforce a boycott against price-gouging kosher butchers. A new "street musical" dramatizes their battle.