jewish history

The British White Paper of 1939 was a formal statement of policy issued by the British government in response to escalating Arab-Jewish tensions in Mandatory Palestine. Rejecting both the partition plan proposed by the 1937 Peel Commission and the eventual establishment of a Jewish state, the White…

In this article, author Laura Wolff Scanlan discusses the role of Jewish-American settlers in shaping the American West. She discusses the opportunities that Jewish settlers had in the West and their impact on Western history.

<p><span class="deck">The claim that the United States and FDR watched the extermination of the Jews with such total indifference that they were actually accomplices doesn't hold up under scrutiny. </span></p>

<p>Lorenzo Da Ponte was a Jewish-born Catholic priest who wrote libretti for Mozart and eventually helped open the first opera house in New York.</p>