Years after her conversion from Catholicism to Judaism, Genie Milgrom discovered documents linking the family to a crypto-Jewish heritage in medieval Spain.
“America is a country of immigrants. Most people don’t even know where their grandparents are from. And there’s a lot of family mythology that is not necessarily true.”
A 3D video recreation of the Great Synagogue of Vilna went online this year as part of the celebration of the 300th birthday of Vilnius’s legendary Jewish sage.