Archive - Harry Freedman's Jewish Histories

The Discovery of Julie Rosewald

The First Woman to Lead a Synagogue Service

Nov 27

Tracing the Tobiads

The Fragmentary History of a Once Powerful Dynasty

Nov 20

The Irish Revolutionary who Befriended English Jews

Nov 13

Scandal in Bavaria

Cover-ups and Disinformation over Looted Art

Nov 6

October 2025

Peter the Great’s Jews

The Tsar who was a little different

Oct 30

Now Gangsters are all the Rage

The new interest in Jewish wrongdoers

Oct 23

The Posner Affair

Modernity versus tradition in 18th century Germany

Oct 16

Blowing in the Wind

Jewish Protest Singers in the 1960s (apart from Dylan)

Oct 9

Lord Shaftesbury’s 'Dash of Madness'

Christian Zionism in the early 18th century

Oct 3

September 2025

Hoping for an Apocalypse

The Crusades and the Jews of Jerusalem

Sep 25

The Magic of Oil

When Babylonian magic found its way into Jewish life

Sep 18

Is Your Name Alexander?

The unusual Jewish legacy of Alexander the Great

Sep 11

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