This Jewish heritage news digest is this week’s NewsNosh (The Weekly News Nosh) from L’Dor V’Dor Foundation—a curated set of links for anyone interested in Jewish family history, Jewish history, and Jewish heritage. This week’s NewsNosh Jewish heritage news digest includes IAJGS survey results, JOWBR’s 2025 update, Qesher, Ukrainian archives search upgrades, and more.
Editor: Phil Goldfarb, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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HeadlinesFebruary 8, 2026 |
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IAJGS Survey Results JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) 2025 Year End Update Have you Discovered Qesher Yet? If Not, You Should! Vast database tracking Ukrainian archives going online improves with search engine Jewish family database of the 19th and 20th centuries AI Handwriting Transcription Rankings Y’alla Oklahoma: As antisemitism surges, Tulsa Jews invite Canadians to join them Looking for Unusual Information About The Mogilev Gubernia in Belarus? 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road to Temple Mount opens to public after years of digging Knesset displays 2,000-year-old jar used by ancient Jews Rare 600-year-old Hebrew prayer book sells for $6.4 million at auction The Jews of Iran Counting the days: How Jews clung to the Hebrew calendar as Nazis tried to erase it From Nazi Germany to the LAPD The One-Woman Bomb Squad The Woman Who Refused to Give Flowers to Hitler The Nurse Who Helped Build Modern Medicine in Jerusalem Naturalization of victims of Nazi persecution and their descendants Hamburg, Germany’s Altona museum opens a permanent exhibition about Hamburg Jewish history, incorporating a Jewish component in a mainstream museum How the Lion of Judah Became a Jewish Symbol The Surprising History of Bar/Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation He documented a changing Jewish world, and the Jewish world changed him Everything We Know About the Ethan Slater-Led Play ‘Marcel on the Train.’ The Jew who put Hitler on trial — and the play that stages his story Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist’s underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface Yiddish theater is revived in Tbilisi, Georgia after 100 years
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