Showing Results 51 - 60 of 273
Restricted
Text
Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
Contributor:
Yudl Rosenberg
Places:
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Solomon Alexander Hart
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1850
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A shady incident took place in Moscow a few days before Easter. At noon, in the center of town, they seized an old Jew, poor and wretched, who was carrying a burlap sack on his back and in it the…
Contributor:
Elisheva Bikhovsky
Date:
1923
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
For a long time, Slimsohn had been saving considerable time and money on food. He had started by limiting himself to just one meal a day, towards evening, then delaying it until that undefinable…
Contributor:
Gustave Kahn
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1925
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I certainly had an obscure childhood
but intensely my own,
a childhood which wanted to be dashing
but had the features of a caricature.
Yes, a caricature. For example:
that absurd love for Sophie,…
Contributor:
César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Jacob Kramer
Places:
Leeds, United Kingdom
Date:
1919
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian SFSR
(Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1919
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Places:
Date:
ca. 1941
Categories:
Public Access
Text
When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being [settled] in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the…
Places:
Date:
Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the new religious revival, the theologians and philosophers have it easy; they can battle about the nature of revelation endlessly in the pages of Commentary. Parents and householders, on the other…
Contributor:
Ruth Gay
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1951