Showing Results 1 - 10 of 11
Restricted
Text
In the women’s prison where the Guards had taken Peacock, six people slept in a cell designed for one. They sat on the floor, occupying every rat-infested inch, blindfolded and handcuffed for weeks in…
Contributor:
Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1991
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] Marjorie returned to the bedroom and waited for a moment, watching the doorknob. Then she walked to the full-length mirror on the closet door, and draped the black dress…
Contributor:
Herman Wouk
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Noted for Service, the Jewish woman, especially in America, faces her greatest opportunities.
It has always been the same story for her. Her home has been the circle from which she has radiated…
Contributor:
Belle Moskowitz
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1917
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Kashruth was not only redefined but repositioned as a growing number of American Jews restricted its observance to the home. The new geography of kashruth promoted a more flexible approach toward…
Contributor:
Jenna Weissman Joselit
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1994
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Duality manifests itself in all things, but in nothing is this two-foldness more plainly seen than in woman’s nature.
The weaker sex physically, it is the stronger spiritually, it having been said…
Contributor:
Ray Frank
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1893
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In our great city of New York, no practical question concerning the welfare of Judaism is of more vital importance than that of mission-work among the Jews. [ . . . ] The great every-day phrase, “we…
Contributor:
Rebekah Kohut
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1893
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“You found the victim?”
She nodded.
“Was she conscious at the time?”
“Yes. Baruch Hashem.”
“Pardon?”
“Nothing. Mrs. Adler was conscious.”
“That’s fine,” Decker said. He faced the uniforms. “Cordon off…
Contributor:
Faye Kellerman
Places:
Date:
1986
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
My day—
Is punctured like a sieve,
And ridiculed like a whim.
May winter whiteness blossom,
May autumns turn gray,
May summers whistle—
Become nightingales.
When a rye-wind
Would have twisted my…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…
Contributor:
Farideh Goldin
Places:
Norfolk, United States of America
Date:
2003
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Deborah Kass
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1992