by Dr. Henry Abramson

The appalling story of desecrated tombstones from the 16^th century Sephardic cemetery of Ferrara, Italy.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Why were European Jews who appeared in court subjugated to humiliating acts like standing bare-chested and bare-headed on a bloody pigskin?

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Italian-Jewish businessman Daniele da Norsa removed the outdoor painting of Madonna and Child, triggering a terrible series of consequences.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

When Yosef ben Matityahu, a great warrior, defected to the Romans and became Josephus Flavius.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

This fascinating Hebrew letter from 630 BCE is the earliest documented example of how average Jews incorporated Judaism’s laws into their everyday lives.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

900 years later, a woman’s story as a convert persecuted by the Crusaders still endures.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

The likely inspiration for the famous Passover poem is a medieval German children’s rhyme.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

This brief video provides a survey of the long Jewish presence in the region, framed in the context of maps: political, ethnolinguistic, military and social.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Jewish history for ridiculously busy people.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Daniel Bomberg capitalized on the disruptive new technology – printing, understanding the potentially huge market for books amongst Jews.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Three medieval documents chronicle the life of a wealthy Jewish woman in Egypt at the turn of the 12th century.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Exploring the mysterious 2nd-Century find in the Cave of Letters.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

Appreciating the trailblazing scholarly work of Rabbi Yitzchak al-Fasi.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

The amazing story of the 700 year old Haggadah, the Muslim librarian who saved it from the Nazis, and how his children were miraculously saved by Israel.

by Dr. Henry Abramson

“Red Haggadahs” were published in the 1920s with the explicit goal of replacing belief in God with faith in Communist Russia.