Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939)

Click Here to Read: Jews in the Spanish Civil War By Martin Sugarman (1936 – 1939) on the Jewish Virtual Library website.

Memorial to Republican-supporting Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. The English inscription reads “Homage to the Jewish heros who, out of the 7000 Jewish volunteers from all countries, fighters of freedom, fell in Spain 1936–1939”. Image: LittleDwangs.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.\

How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA

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.