The leaflet details the medieval blood libel of Norwich Jews killing a local boy in the 12th Century.

From medieval charges of deicide to Nazi accusations of cultural corruption to modern allegations of physical genocide, ...

For the Jews of northern Europe, the year 1096 brought a brutal spring. Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem attacked Jewish communities throughout the Rhineland. It was then, says Susan L. Einbinder, ...

By Hannah Confino JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by ...

A “Friendsgiving” protest featuring “Gaza’s Spilled Blood” echoed a slander that has sparked violence against Jews for ...

Seventeen bodies found at the bottom of a medieval English well were likely Jews who were murdered in an anti-Semitic massacre more than 800 years ago, scientists have revealed. The massacre took ...

About two-thirds of Jews today—or roughly ten million people—are Ashkenazi, referring to a recent origin from Eastern and Central Europe. They reside mostly in the United States and Israel. Ashkenazi ...

Based on the skeletal remains, scientists reconstructed the face of a male adult (left) and a child (right). Credit: Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University (CN) — Skeletons ...

One of the thorniest problems for the writing of medieval Jewish social history is the paucity of source materials. Yet even where documentary materials such as the Cairo Geniza do remain, scholars ...

Jews rebuilt their community in the decades after a pogrom and before the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. (JTA) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York ...

A highly significant find, this 14th-century synagogue is a rare example of Jewish religious life in medieval Spain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made ...