Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine ...

For the first time ever, four Jewish sites are among the historical venues throughout Germany competing for placement on a list that Germany will propose to UNESCO for recognition as World Heritage ...

If residents of Lima are unfamiliar with the Holocaust or Jewish history in general, there’s a good reason, Ruth Barnett told students at Apollo Career Center on Wednesday.

Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher, cultural and literary critic, was born on July 15, 1892, in Berlin, into a wealthy, ...

Eighty-six years after being stripped of her citizenship, the American retiree living in New York decided to have it ...

Germany has arguably been Israel’s most loyal and dependable ally in Europe. Driven largely by its experience under the Nazi regime and its genocide of European Jewry during the Shoah, Germany has ...

Politics will be unavoidable at the 30th Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg, Germany's largest Jewish film fest, but organizers want to focus on the movies: "Films aren't there to provide answers ...

A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German citizenship. Some American Jews whose families fled Nazis are now seeking ...