A YouTuber reviewing a pizza shop in Westcliff-on-Sea meets a local Jew...

A British officer examining gravestones from the desecrated Jewish cemetery of Salonica used to construct Nazi defenses, 1944.

That heavenly scent after hoshanos...

I once posted this footage of 9/11 and a Hatzolah first responder identified himself in it; he had never seen it before.

This is the Hall of Ambassadors at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, where the Spanish expulsion decree was signed in 1492.

I've been following Dr. Bergman's meticulously and extensively researched work, and this is a fascinating and well-written book. Highly recommended for those interested in American Jewish history (and everyone else too)!

American rabbis gather aboard the S.S. Kosciuszko to dedicate a maritime shul for observant Jews traveling the New York-to-Poland route, 1934.

Rav M. Z. Margolies speaking at a 1933 protest in Madison Square Garden against the persecution of German Jews. NYC Mayor John B. O’Brien is also seen.

Children aboard the ill-fated St. Louis look out of her portholes as the ship arrives back in Europe after being turned away in America, 1939.

A kesubah from a 1782 Jewish wedding in Philadelphia. Haym Salomon and Mordecai Sheftall signed as witnesses. Currently in the National Library of Israel. חתן: יעקב בר יהושע הכהן כלה: ארמלתא גיורת אסתר בת אברהם

The word נקמה (revenge) written — reportedly in blood — on a door in the Kovno Ghetto, 1944.

What the tombstones look like today

Harry Fischel visiting the graves of his parents in Lithuania in 1923.

Registration for the Orthodox Union's famous Ⓤ kosher symbol indicates that it was first used in 1925.

A boy learning Hebrew and Persian at a Jewish school in Tehran, 1970.

A very similar one, yes. Published in 1916. Check out @ShufraJudaica!

Jewish farmers on an agricultural colony founded by the Joint Distribution Committee in the Krivoi Rog District, Ukraine, in 1926.

The current interior of the famed Volozhin Yeshiva, now a museum.

A photo of R. Akiva Schreiber, the Daas Sofer, blessing Franz Josef I during the emperor's visit to the city of Pressburg (Bratislava) in 1909.

German and Austro-Hungarian troops march though a shtetl during the Gorlice–Tarnów offensive in 1915. Some frum Jews are seen on the left.