Richard Nagler is a San Francisco Bay–based photographer and art promoter. He sponsored the Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography, an annual international competition at the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Nagler has published several books of his photographs, including My Love Affair with Miami Beach, with text by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991).
Adonay,
Our people have called You Monarch of the universe.
Help us who live without a monarch on a throne
To perceive Your sovereignty
In the royal splendor that pervades the universe,
In the holy…
Likute Yosef (The Compilation of Joseph), a commentary on prayers, is an important source of information about the Jewish religious culture of Worms, Germany, one of the oldest and most important…
[ . . . ] [A]n Ashkenazic sage came to Ṣanʿāʾ in the time of Sar Shalom al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1780) . . . and stayed at his house and ate at his table. Fearing for the Ashkenazi’s life, Sar Shalom told him…