Jewish history

A-level History textbook removes reference to Jewish ‘riches and money-lending’ as an explanation for pogroms

Oxford University Press consulted with Jewish experts after receiving complaints from communal body

By Jane Prinsley

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November 20, 2024 17:31

The 2015 edition of the Oxford University Press History A-level textbook suggested Jewish wealth made the community a target during the Russian pogroms - a new addition has updated the assumption

Can you help uncover the history of one of the East End’s long forgotten synagogues?

The Spitalfields Trust is calling on JC readers to share their family stories in connection with the 19th century shul

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

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September 25, 2024 13:31

19 Princelet Street, which has a synagogue in its back garden (Photo: Spitalfields Trust)

Boy accidentally smashes Israeli museum’s 3,500 year old jar

The Bronze Age artefact has been at the Hecht Museum in Haifa for 35 years

By Felix Pope

1 min read

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August 29, 2024 08:30

The jar, which has been at the museum for 35 years, has been dated to between 1130 and 1500 BC (Photo: Hecht Museum)

Cramped but full of hope: step inside a Jewish flat from 1913

A new Museum of the Home exhibit immerses visitors in the daily life of an East End Jewish family preparing for Shabbos

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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July 17, 2024 08:56

Cramped but full of hope: step inside a Jewish flat from 1913

Mensches on the benches! Introducing Labour’s brace of brand-new Jewish MPs

Meet the Jewish parliamentarians elected as part of the Starmer landslide

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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July 11, 2024 15:51

By Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Emotion is not a measure of truth and morality

If we are to make wise decisions, we must beware of a tendency to move with our feelings

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July 10, 2024 08:52

Maya Angelou (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for AWRT)

By Keren David

History tells us our right to be heard is absolute

Lionel de Rothschild refused to cave in to bigotry – and was able to take his seat as an MP

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June 27, 2024 08:10

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808 - 1879), Vanity Fair published in 1877. Caricature by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rare English medieval siddur goes on display

The 12th-century prayerbook is on display in Bishop Auckland, Durham

By Simon Rocker

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June 24, 2024 09:26

Medieval siddur on display at the Faith Museum (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

The less than holy king who erected Judaism’s most sacred monument

King Herod was no darling of the rabbis but he was responsible for the Western Wall

By Simon Rocker

4 min read

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May 10, 2024 09:37

Blessing of the Cohanim at the Western Wall in Jerusalem over Pesach (Getty Images)

WJR on ‘mission’ to connect Jewish refugee history with descendants

So that we never forget: Rare colourised photos of death camp liberation revealed

How the JC reported Auschwitz’s horror

National Holocaust Museum launches global exhibition exploring ‘Vicious Circle’ of Jewish hate

Short on New Year resolutions? I have one for you: be proud Jews

Bear Grylls drops reference to Jesus’ mother as ‘Palestinian’ after condemnation

Angela Rayner steps in over plan to build skyscraper next to Bevis Marks shul

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A-level History textbook removes reference to Jewish ‘riches and money-lending’ as an explanation for pogroms

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History tells us our right to be heard is absolute

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The less than holy king who erected Judaism’s most sacred monument