Leo Tolstoy served as a young artillery officer in the defence of the great Russian naval base of Sevastopol against British ...

Murray, who is not Jewish, has become known as a fearless and masterful debater who has a penchant for slicing through nonsense and leaving oratory opponents sitting in a pound of their own flesh.

Fania Brantsovsky, the last survivor of the Vilna ghetto and a Yiddish culture advocate, died at 102, mourning a rich Jewish ...

Fania quickly went to work, helping to document what had been lost, and assisted Soviet Jewish writers Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman in the “Black Book of Soviet Jewry,” a 500-page ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture.

V ILNIUS — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last ...