The Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 1720–1797), widely regarded as one of the greatest Torah scholars in Jewish ...

Family photos, cherished sacred books, children’s toys and many more items create a collage like portrait of Jewish communities across eras and continents.

A tractate concerning Jewish monetary law from the Babylonian Talmud, scribed in 1721 by a 12-year-old Amschel Moses Rothschild, predates the family’s extreme wealth in banking and the ...

Fania Branstovsky was one of the last remaining Jewish World War II partisan resistance fighters from the Vilna ghetto. (Video still courtesy Dovid Katz) By David I. Klein September 24, 2024 ...

Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority stands on the colorful floor of the main prayer hall of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, which was destroyed by the Nazis and has been undergoing ...

A rendering of the Great Synagogue in Vilna. New and exciting discoveries are being revealed these days in the archaeological excavations of the remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna which was ...

The Vilna Troupe toured Europe with the production, but during Nazi occupation of Lithuania, 95 percent of its estimated Jewish population of 265,000 was murdered. Advertisement.

Ira Fuchs’ “Vilna” — inspired by that New York Times article, created in a playwriting workshop in 2016 and now having its premiere at the Theater at St. Clement’s — is an attempt to ...