2019-03-08 19:29
Hi there.Yes, I know many many of my old posts are missing the pictures. Luckily I have them all saved and given time and money I surely would correct all my posts.In the meantime, if you co… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Here's a nice ad for Passover products from 1842, under the rabbinic supervision of Rabbi Solomon Hirschell (1862-1842). From the Voice of Jacob.British wine! Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This is really cool. This is a leaf from a manuscript called Sukkat David. It's a notebook of David Franco Mendes, 18th century Hebrew writer and poet of Amsterdam. He is best known (to me… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The Freimann-Sammlung digital library at the University of Frankfurt recently added some fantastic bibliographies, including this important one - the catalog that was prepared for the 1… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Reader request: If you go to Columbia University, or Harvard or Yale and you are a fan of this blog (sounds so swell-headed, but what can I say?) it is possible you could give me a hand… Read More
2015-10-15 16:02
Here's a story from a newspaper in West Virginia* all about yarmulkes and YU. Check out those Stern girls at the bottom knitting yarmulkes for their boyfriend. 1960.*Yes, it was syndicated Read More
2015-10-13 16:04
Israel Zangwill explains the rules for Sabbath observance on vacations in 1889 Read More
2015-10-13 15:53
This is a story from 1868 about the time Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveitchik was arrested as part of a ruble forgery ring. Note: Although the charge makes the most interesting contention that his rol… Read More
2015-09-07 22:57
Here's a fortunately mistaken news item from 1919 about Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk Read More
2015-07-27 17:00
This is a Hebrew letter from Ernest Renan to Rabbi Jacob Saphir, after he gifted him with a copy of his incredible travelogue Even Sapir. This was published in Halevanon (note how proud… Read More
2015-06-23 19:21
Well, I think it hasn't been called attention to before.This appeared in the American Israelite on October 16, 1902. The author is the incredibly colorful figure Adolphe Danziger, who r… Read More
2015-06-23 17:42
2015-05-04 17:56
1. Here we've got a prayer composed for New York Governor George Clinton and אדוננו General דשארדש וו”……Read More
2015-04-15 16:47
This is sweet. In 1899 Wichita, Kansas very nearly elected Miss Sadie Joseph queen of the Flower Parade at the Fall Carnival, because they really didn't like the verdict against Capt. Alfred… Read More
2015-03-23 16:55
Book Announcement:הגדה של פסח "אשירה ואשננה בחש•……Read More
2015-02-23 21:40
Definitely worth posting this footage of the Chafetz Chaim in 1923.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzouH7unTbY#t=16Here are some stills: Read More
2014-11-23 03:42
Here's an 1830 portrait of Maimonides, dressed as a Galician rabbi Read More
2014-11-21 04:54
Here's an interesting page from the Voice of Jacob's October 1841 issue - the periodicals' second. It gives the guidelines for saying kaddish for "the guidance of a colonial congregation und… Read More
2014-11-21 04:02
In case you weren't sure how they felt about the Czar (from the safety of New York, naturally).This idea found a new target some decades later.Incidentally, you can see here three versions o… Read More
2014-10-22 17:14
Here are some fantastic pictures of R. Hermann Adler (1839-1911) at various stages of his life, from a boy of 8 to yeshiva bochur at 17, young rabbi at 24, marriage at 27, established rabbi… Read More
2014-10-21 17:45
Here is an interesting image (that exists in many versions, it seems it was something of a popular picture) depicting a Jew from Muncacz and, of course, his garb. It's about 200 years old Read More
2014-09-24 01:52
Here's a rather trenchant criticism against a man far more learned than this suggests. From the American Israelite (September 20, 1867): Read More
2014-08-20 17:16
Here's an interesting little story about the reading room in the NYPL in 1925. An impressive, scholarly looking Chassidic man is spotted, and assumed to be reading some sort of lofty mystica… Read More
2014-08-20 16:03
Here's a little blurb about some recognition of the yeshiva of Volozhin by the Russian government. Apparently this recognition meant that some students could receive stipends from the govern… Read More
2014-08-20 15:55
From 1935 Read More
2014-08-08 14:49
Here's a wonderful appeal for matzot on behalf of prisoners, from 1899 Read More
2014-08-03 17:11
My great-grandfather's chumash and siddur with piyutimBy David Roth, in collaboration with Gabriel WassermanI'm pleased to present this wonderful guest post by David Roth. I enjoyed it very… Read More
2014-08-03 16:51
This is Gotthard Deutsch replying to Lewis Dembitz in the American Hebrew, 1904.Love the שור הבר and קדיש דר”……Read More
2014-07-04 15:50
1854 Read More
2014-07-04 15:44
Excerpt from the American Israelite, from 1857:In the polemics over Reform, the representatives of Reform took endless delight in pointing out innovations accepted by the Orthodox in one pla… Read More
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