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The Weekly News Nosh – February 1, 2026

Jewish Heritage · Jewish History · Jewish Family History

Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA


Headlines

February 1, 2026

  1. MyHeritage Adds Spain, Names & Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com

  2. Israel Genealogy Research Association’s Databases Release for January 2026

  3. International Holocaust Remembrance Day: From Numbers to Names

  4. Find a Grave: 2025 Year in Review

  5. It’s gotta be the genes: Israeli study finds genetics play key role in human longevity

  6. Smashed by ISIS, a 2,700-year-old carving may have been the earliest-known depiction of Jerusalem

  7. Czech Republic: Archaeologists will research the site of Brno’s destroyed Great Synagogue as part of a series of commemorative initiatives

  8. How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life

  9. For the first time since Hitler, a Hebrew publisher sets up shop in Germany

  10. Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History premieres taking viewers on an epic journey of the parallel and intersecting streams of Black and Jewish experience in the U.S

  11. On PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots,’ Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan discovers her family’s unknown Holocaust story

  12. Why We Must Remember the Holocaust

  13. Holocaust-era songs composed in Nazi ghettos published for first time in English

  14. A Holocaust survivor born in a concentration camp shares her story

  15. Adolf Hitler’s Art Still Sells, as ‘Industry’ Just Reminded Us

  16. Auschwitz-Birkenau

  17. Grandson of Auschwitz commandant: “My grandfather was greatest mass murderer in history”

  18. A millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed

  19. For fleeing Jews, Venezuela was a golden land — now in exile, they watch their homeland’s unrest with trepidation

  20. The Jews of Argentina

  21. A language course is reviving Moroccan Jewish culture and bridging Middle East divides

  22. A Museum of Jewish Culture is being developed in Bardejov, Slovakia

  23. Yad Vashem nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

  24. All the Big Jewish Nominees at the 2026 Oscars

  25. Northern Noshes…Canadian Jewish Community Cookbooks