Showing Results 11 - 20 of 78
Public Access
Text
We live in a time of a universal striving for science and civilization, and the spirit of the time warms the hearts of everyone alike with its breath. It permeates the depths of the soul and reason…
Contributor:
Israel Leon Grosglik
Places:
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1869
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I want to tell you a good story that I heard on the first day of Succos. Someone told me he heard it from his father, a Hasid, and just forgive me, because I have to throw a lot of names at you, but…
Contributor:
Shlomo Carlebach
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Places:
Sadigura, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Sadhora, Ukraine)
Date:
1880
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Honored Conference:
Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Date:
1908
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…
Contributor:
Hillel Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
Contributor:
Avraham Kahana
Places:
Zhitomir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
Categories:
Restricted
Text
We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
Contributor:
Martin Buber
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
Contributor:
Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
Places:
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1905
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
rebbe levi yitskhok
tsine, his wife
khayim, their son
gnendl, their daughter
taybele, their daughter
henekh yoel, gabbai
oyzer, butcher
zavl, butcher
itshe
mordkhe
moyshe
khveder…
Contributor:
Peretz Hirshbein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
Contributor:
Der Nister
Date:
1939