The Moment
When Rav Hirsch was niftar in Frankfurt on December 31, 1888, it ended a glorious era for Ashkenaz Jewry
For the Record
Rav Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), brought the town of Lubavitch to prominence as a center of Torah and chassidus
For the Record
Harvard University’s history of anti-Semitism goes back at least as far as the 1930s