Art and Architecture, mainly

Russian Elcon Baevski (1875-1938) was born in Krichev to Hebrew scholar Ezekiel Baevski, went to a Jewish primary school, then high school ...

I met my first Brazilian friends during my Gap Year abroad in 1966. They were the kindest, best educated and most moral people I had ever m...

Was a female pope, disguised as a Deacon, elected in 855 AD ? Apparently Pope Joan wore robes to express her piety, and to conceal her gend...

The book Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent (Harper, 2011) was the unauthor...

When the Jew­s  were expelled from Portugal from 1497, the specialist jewellers and others fled North and ended up in Ant­werp ­. Antwerp w...