(Sammy Eppel, Steven Gruzd, Vol. 66, #3, Chanukah 2011)   Q: Can you briefly sketch a picture of Jewish communities in Latin America? A: At one point, in the late 1960s, it was estimated that there were about one million Jews in Latin America, with

(Author: Norman Sher, Vol. 67, No. 1, Pesach 2012)   EDITOR’S NOTE : In our Chanukah 2011 issue, we published Norman Sher’s account of his years as a member of the Department of Justice Prosecutor’s Staff in Johannesburg during the early 1960s. In this follow-up

(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 71, No. 3, Chanukah 2016)  By the time of Julius Caesar’s conquest in 58-51 B.C.E. until the invasion of the Barbarians in the 5th Century, Gaul – as France was originally known - was a province of the Roman Empire. The

(AUTHOR: Bernard Katz, Vol. 75, #2, Autumn, 2020) The earliest known Jewish presence on the Greek mainland dates to the 3rd Century BCE. However, it is highly probable that Jews traveled or were forcibly transported to Greece prior to this date.[1] The first Greek Jew

(Author: David Ariel Sher, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018)             “I would like to live in Manchester, England,” Mark Twain once declared, “The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.” Walking through the Manchester Art Gallery on Mosley St., viewing magnificently funereal Mancunian

(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018)            Jewish Presence in Ancient Times and the Middle Ages Jewish settlement in Hungary stretches back to Roman times. Tombstones dating to the 3rd Century indicate that the Jews accompanied the Roman legions when part of