SPOTLIGHT: JEWISH CUBA
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A primer of good reads, recipes, insights
Spaghetti Bolognaise in Bologna?
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We think not! Find out more…
Explore Morocco
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The Jewish Heritage Travel staff has prepared a cultural primer with photography, biography, travel writing, film, and more…
Explore Polish Culture
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Jewish Heritage Travel regularly takes travelers to Poland. Our staff has compiled a few novels, poems, and movies as a head start — to help you explore Polish culture, remember its Jewish history, and get excited about an historical learning adventure.
Jewish Heritage Travel Scholars — Your Companions and Guides
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Our brilliant academics, teachers, historians, and more on bringing the “historic and cultural Jewish experience to life” “A journey of self-discovery,” said the rabbi, though he clearly had more. As Jewish Heritage Travel scholar Chaim Seidler-Feller was naming some of the most influential Jewish writers of the 19th century, we asked him to sum up […]
The Gaon of Vilna
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Since the venerable sage, born in 1720, is about to celebrate his 303rd birthday this April, here are just a few tales about one of European Judaism’s most influential figures.
Who gets the credit?
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The survival of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews is something most of us have heard about, but who deserves the credit?
Whose is this song?
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A haunting melody, Usküdara, Fel shara or Terk in America, is known everywhere. But where does it from?
The 1943 Rescue Of Denmark’s Jews: Danish Fishermen Ferry Survivors to Safe Shores
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In October of 1943, an extraordinary rescue plan brought 7,000 of Denmark’s Jews to safety — a resistance and rescue mission that saved a majority of the country’s Jews from the Nazis.
500-year-old Sephardic Recipes Brought a Network of Cousins Together.
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“We ate, that’s how we communicated.”