The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

The historic Jewish quarter of Kazimierz ... With its mosques, minarets and madrassas, Samarkand in northeastern Uzbekistan is a true visual marvel. As one of Central Asia’s oldest cities and a ...

Samarkand tycoon Fazilov has a hand in this project too: he's the chairman of one of Uzbekistan's largest contractors, Enter Engineering, which is building the complex. The company is cagey about ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish community. The dictator was gone. The new Islamist rulers had yet to ...

At least 1,100,000 men, women, and children were murdered in Auschwitz, more than 90% of whom were Jewish. Among the items found by the Russians were 370,000 men’s suits, 837,000 women’s ...

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — Jewish students in Sydney returned to school on Friday with a heightened security presence, days after police said they foiled a planned antisemitic attack in the ...

A majority of people in seven countries believe a mass genocide against Jewish people similar to the Holocaust could happen today, according to a survey published by The Conference on Jewish ...

of Persia and Transoxiana (a region of Turkestan), what is now Uzbekistan. It’s believed that Ulugh, the firstborn, must have been born in Soltaniyeh (Iran) around 1393 or 1394, although he probably ...

The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely document Germany’s persecution of Jews and other religious and ethnic ...

the language of his city and of Central Asian Jews from Samarkand to the borders of China. What does Haqqoni tell us about the culture of Central Asia? And as the Bukharan Jewish population ...

How Poland descended into a black box of Jewish extermination led me to visit the homeland of my relatives to learn more about the Holocaust You can save this article by registering for free here.