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History

History Around the World

Significant past events, influential figures, and cultural moments that shaped society. Ancient civilizations, wars, social revolutions, historical landmarks, and biographies.

Biochemist Edmond Fischer.

This week in Jewish history: Nebi Musa riots, death of Reb Aryeh Levin
THE AMSTERDAM trams played a crucial role in transporting the city’s Jews to the death camps.

'Lost City': A look at the trains of Amsterdam that sent off Jews during the Holocaust
By BARRY DAVIS
THE HEBREW University of Jerusalem opens, 1925.

This week in Jewish history: Birth of Hebrew University
By Steven Drucker
A RECONSTRUCTION of the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate, the northern entrance to Babylon, on display at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

'Letters from Home': Exploring tension among Jews in in the Second Temple era
By ALAN ROSENBAUM
Reseachers uncover a pyramid-like structure in the Judean Desert, photo taken March 2025

Ancient pyramid, coins, and weapons: Archaeologists unearth Judean Desert treasure trove
By JOANIE MARGULIES
19th-century Megillat Esther linked to Gaza's Jewish community up for auction in Jerusalem.

19th-century Megillat Esther linked to Gaza's Jewish community up for auction in Jerusalem
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Author and Holocaust survivor Peggy Parnass dies at 97 in Hamburg.

Author and Holocaust survivor Peggy Parnass dies at 97 in Hamburg
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism
By ALEX WINSTON
'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

This week in Jewish history: Purim story, mass suicide, killing of York's Jews
By Steven Drucker
‘THE OLD PLANTATION,’ watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly painted between 1785 and 1795 in the Beaufort District of South Carolina.

'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled
By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
Sun Yat-sen expressed his support for Zionism in a letter sent to N.E.B. Ezra, 24 April 1920.

Sun Yat-sen at 100: The revolutionary who shaped modern China
By ALEX WINSTON
Reiner Langhans, 2012.

'Death has me in its grip': German hippie icon faces terminal cancer
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Etta Shiber, seen in a publicity photo for the 1943 book "Paris-Underground," and Kate Bonnefous, shown in 1940, were friends and unlikely heroes of the early French resistance.

Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis, one ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
ENGRAVING BY Ephraim Moshe Lilien, produced for the Fifth Zionist Congress, Basel, Switzerland, 1901. The Hebrew inscription reads: ‘May our eyes behold your return in mercy to Zion.’

'Zionism and Jewish Culture': Getting to the true essence of Jewish nationalism
By NEVILLE TELLER
A fan takes a photo of a Barbie doll at the world premiere of the film "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 9, 2023

This week in Jewish history: The births of Moses and Barbie
By Steven Drucker
Hand-written version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 discovered in 17th-century manuscript.

Hand-written version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 discovered in 17th-century manuscript
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Pichu Pichu volcano.

The Capacocha rituals: Decoding Inca child sacrifices on volcano summits
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Ducal Palace of Urbino’s medieval walled town and university in Marche, Italy.

16th-century military machines manuscript acquired by Italy’s The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Unveiling the Apocalypse: Dürer’s ‘The Four Horsemen’ and ‘The Whore of Babylon’ on display in exhibition exploring the End of the World.

Dürer’s ‘The Four Horsemen’ and ‘The Whore of Babylon’ on display in End of the World exhibit
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A memorial commemorating the murder of Robert Einstein's family, located at the Badiuzza cemetery in Italy.

'After Images': The tragedy of Albert Einstein’s cousin Robert
By ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Cuauhtémoc's tortured legacy: The story of Descending Eagle, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire.

Cuauhtémoc's tortured legacy: The story of Descending Eagle, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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