Click Here to Read: How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA: Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life by Freda Kreier on the Nature website on November 21, 2022.
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931 Image: National Archives at College Park Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Capital of Yiddishland: Yiddish Culture in Vilna between the Two World Wars by Cecile E. Kuznitz Proceedings of the International Workshop Tokyo, January 7 and Kyoto, January 9, 2017.
Great Synagogue in Vilnius Image: Jewish Community of Lithuania. Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism For most of human evolution, multiple species with different ways of walking upright coexisted By Jeremy DeSilva in the Scientific American issue of November 1, 2022.
Cast of the “Laetoli footprints” — the earliest known human footprints in the world, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. These footprints are those of Australopithecus afarensis. Image: Tim Evanson. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
lick Here to Read: How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust: Richard Scheuer’s images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient By Simi Horwitz on the Forward website on October 12, 2022.
Jews working in one of the manufacturing plants (so called szops) in the Warsaw Ghetto/ Image: Stanisław Poznański (oprac./edit.), Walka. Śmierć. Pamięć 1939-1945. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
