memory
27/01/2018 - 20:23
73 years ago, the remaining 7000 prisoners at the Auschwitzconcentration and extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army. Right... →
18/12/2017 - 12:40
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution is being discussed so little on its centenary in Russia that there is speculation abroad that it’s being... →
12/03/2017 - 16:07
They settled in a small resort town, emptied by the war but beginning to fill again with refugees, mostly foreign Jews. In the summer of... →
06/12/2016 - 12:41
"This is a really fundamental find—it's like the dark matter of memory," says Geoffrey Woodman, a cognitive neuroscientist at Vanderbilt... →
08/09/2016 - 11:39
Biton was tasked with strengthening the identity of the Mizrahi Jewish community – including immigrants from Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Tunisia and... →
07/08/2016 - 13:30
These are global trends but, living in the US, it seems to me that there is something particularly American to them. We have a long... →
07/08/2016 - 13:12
Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car?
We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →
04/07/2016 - 12:10
Wiesel, he added, helped the world realize that “ultimately we are not talking about an abstract history” but rather about very real human... →
29/04/2016 - 14:07
That history had mostly been brushed over, and remnants of Jewish life disappeared. In Lviv, the surviving two walls of the 16th-century... →
23/02/2016 - 13:58
This exhibition will presents archeological exhibits, works of art, and numerous items that attest to the myth and popular culture that... →
30/10/2015 - 17:46
In today’s Russia it is not fashionable to delve too deeply into Gulag history, and 60-year-old Panikarov’s collection is one of just two... →
26/07/2015 - 17:05
Measuring time
Humans have created reliable instruments to measure time by using predictable repeating events that occur naturally, such as... →