BERLIN (JTA) — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who faced Nazi persecution. The Berlin-based Prussian ...

images from what historians have called the “first book on fashion”, created and commissioned by 16th-century German accountant Matthäus Schwarz, have inspired a new set of photographs of ...

(Each city says it is the true home of the first Christmas tree.) In the 16th century, German Christians brought the trees inside their homes as a Christmas symbol of everlasting life. When news ...

The debate over confession in 16th-century Germany. In the Presbyterian church of my youth, we were admonished each week to confess our sins silently to God. To an impressionable young mind ...

BERLIN — A federal German cultural organization has returned a 16th-century sculpture to the heirs of its pre-war Jewish owner who faced Nazi persecution. The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage ...