The most extraordinary spiritual resistance took place during the darkest times of the Holocaust. Lyrics and music were written and performed in ghettos, partisan forests, and even the camps as a means of expression, encouragement, and resistance to inhumanity and annihilation. Most of these songs were written in Yiddish, the language of the vast majority […]

Boris Aronson, recipient of six Tony awards for Best Scenic Design, was one of the most prolific and important artists of the American theater. In exploring Aronson's journey from the Yiddish theater to Broadway, we demonstrate some of the many ways in which the Yiddish theater intersected with the mainstream American stage, leaving a lasting […]

Chiune Sugihara, as Japanese Consul serving in Kovno, Lithuania at the onset of WW II, risked his family, career, livelihood, and life by issuing visas to thousands of Jewish refugees who were then able to flee to Japan, China, and numerous other countries in safety. They became known as Sugihara Survivors. Prof. Setsuzo Kotsuji, is […]

ייִדן און די מיטאָלאָגיע פֿון קרעם קייז Santa Monica Synagogue (Sha’arei Am) and the world’s foremost cream cheese maven. The Great American Cream Cheese Myth is that Jews introduced cream cheese to America.  But, in reality, there was no cream cheese in the shtetl. American Yankees developed the cheese decades before the Eastern European migration.  So […]