Emma Lazarus had an overriding faith that supporting immigrants would lead to untold improvements across the nation and ...

The city that was so Jewish that anti-Semites would call it “Jew York” just gave its Democrat primary choice to an outright ...

The Chmielewski’s saw their lives upended on March 13, 1881, when revolutionaries assassinated Russian emperor Czar Alexander II in St. Petersburg – a bombing for which Russia’s Jews were collectively ...

Czar Alexander II had been assassinated by Nihilists in the midst of his reformist activities, among which were the measures admitting Jews to the high schools and universities, and giving Jewish ...

Pope Alexander II was the 156th pope, and he held the title from Sept. 30, 1061 until April 21, 1073, serving for 11 years, 203 days until his death.

But the permanent Jewish settlement of Estonia did not begin until the 19th century, when the Jews were granted the right to enter the region by a statute of Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1865. Jews ...

In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.

Even before the waves of Eastern European Jewish immigration began in 1881 following the assassination of Czar Alexander II, Jewish life in America was steadily growing.

In 1881, after revolutionaries killed Czar Alexander II, an organization called the Holy Brotherhood was founded with the aim of foiling any future attempt to assassinate a monarch.

In 1839, the grand duke and future Russian tsar Alexander II visited Britain, where the young Queen Victoria threw a ball for him at Buckingham Palace and Lord Palmerston, the foreign secretary ...