Click Here to Read: Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Fierce New Testament: The French thinker’s latest book offers a global vision in which national pride and universal ideals can powerfully coexist BY Liel Liebovitz on the Tablet website on November 19, 2021.
Category: History
Archaeologists Discover ‘Lost,’ 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sun Temple
Click Here to Read: Archaeologists Discover ‘Lost,’ 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Sun Temple: Fifth-Dynasty pharaohs built six such structures. Until now, only two had been found by Livia Gershon on the Smithsonian Website on November 17, 2021.
Sun temple of Niuserre, Abu Ghurab, Egypt Image: Roland Unger Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How Did a 15th-Century Coin Minted Under Henry VII End Up in Newfoundland?
Click Here to Read: How Did a 15th-Century Coin Minted Under Henry VII End Up in Newfoundland? Dated to between 1493 and 1499, the silver half-groat is the oldest English coin ever found in Canada by David Kindy on the Smithsonian website on November 12, 2021.
Post-Medieval coin: half sovereign of Henry VIII Image: St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2013-12-17 12:26:35 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
New York Times Report on Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938
Click Here to Read: New York Times Report on Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938: A New York Times story from November 10, 1938, that reports on the events of Kristallnacht in Munich and other cities around Germany on the Facing History website.
German citizens look the other way on Nov. 10 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. What they see or don’t want to see are destroyed Jewish shops and houses. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
The Way-Forward Machine: If we want to plan millennia ahead, we should ask how Jews have always done it
Click Here to Read: The Way-Forward Machine: If we want to plan millennia ahead, we should ask how Jews have always done it by Sam Aerbesman ion the Tablet Website on November 10, 2021.
Sephardi Jewish couple from Sarajevo in traditional clothing. Photo taken in 1900. Image: Unknown Author. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How did the enslaved workers of Pompeii live?
Click Here to Read: How did the enslaved workers of Pompeii live? A new discovery provides a rare glimpse by Kat Lonsdorf on the NPR website on November 7, 2021.
Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on north wall of rear room. A soldier with spear in his left hand holds out his cup to a slave. Image: https://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2010%2001%20p2.htm Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
