This Week in Jewish History at Unpacked

Stalin executed 13 Soviet Jewish intellectuals, while Jewish resistance fighters rose against the Nazis in the Białystok Ghetto.

Why were medieval Jews forced to hear Christian sermons, and why did Jewish soldiers have to earn the right to marry?

This week in Jewish history, Göring ordered preparations for the Final Solution, and Russian Jewish immigrants arrived in New York City.

This week in Jewish history, we remember the Khmelnytsky pogroms and the laying of Hebrew University’s first cornerstones.

This week in Jewish history: Remember the Vel d’Hiv roundup in Paris and the surprising abolition of the Spanish Inquisition in 1834.

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