But from the French Revolution onwards, a piecemeal emancipation allowed wealthy Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers to buy estates, often displacing the dispossessed or impoverished old ...

While Swiss friends were waiting to assist him, Oscar Von Koerner, 51, Viennese industrialist and timber king of Europe ... a title of nobility from Hungary. JTA has documented Jewish history ...

Communities in many cities, including in Spain and Italy, the two countries hit hardest by COVID-19 in Europe, are planning to hold at least some in-person programming on Jewish culture.

In addition, not all noble families have been wealthy or influential (the concept of the poor nobleman dates back almost as far as nobility). Fiefs, or fiefdoms, under feudal systems (Europe and ...

“Modern Jewish thought” is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American and Israeli philosophers. The story of France’s development of its own schools of ...