David knew that, like Amelie and Arnold, the Suchets of his father's line also had eastern European Jewish origins. He thought that the name Suchet perhaps derived from what he thought was the ...

as he told the New York Jewish Week at the time, that the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews “does not get reduced to Tevye and a guy in a black hat and beard.” Hundert also served as the ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

In 1830 Jews were allowed to trade freely. In 1858 the first Jewish Member of Parliament (MP) Lionel de Rothschild took his seat in Parliament. Numbers increased steadily through natural growth ...