Germany’s Reform rabbinical seminary ordained three new rabbis, including the first woman to become a rabbi in Germany since before the Holocaust. Thursday’s ceremonies at Berlin’s Pestalozzistrasse ...

When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation of the Talmud into German, the world he had hoped to serve when he started 40 years earlier was in the process of being destroyed. It was 1935, two ...

This article reconsiders the first comprehensive history of German film, Oskar Kalbus's two-volume Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst (On the Rise of German Film Art, 1935) in terms of its contemporary ...

This essay covers the largest Jewish youth organization in Nazi Germany. During the early years of the Nazi regime many young Jews chose to join Zionist organizations which not only aimed to educate ...

In 1934, when the German Army announced plans for a new standard rifle, JP Sauer & Sohn quickly began producing its own version based on Mauser’s Gewehr pattern. Having experience from World War I ...

Access to Lazarus Goldschmidt’s translation comes amid surging interest in Jewish studies at German universities and in less formal settings. (JTA) — When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation ...