Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will... →
Jan Schakowsky
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather... →
Simon Schama
I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives.... →
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our... →
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human... →
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud.... →
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of that dark, gray, lamenting... →
I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.