Torah Crown (Poland)

This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo (The People), mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul. The cartoon indicates two…

The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in Amsterdam…

Concerning the origin of the religion of Israel [Yi-tz’ u-lo-yeh], it has come from a distant past. It began with Adam [A-tan], who was a descendant of P’an-ku in the nineteenth generation, and it was…