In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very... Read more »
Curry houses, grocery stores, textile shops, and bilingual street signs: All pepper the street known as Banglatown—Brick Lane, East London’s iconic Bangladeshi neighborhood. Wandering among a throng of Bengali locals and international... Read more »
On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans prison, past the “secret annexe” where she had hidden from the Nazis, on the start of a journey to her... Read more »