Circumcision Bench

This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…

When it was first built, the Sha‘ar Hashamayim (Gate of Heaven) Synagogue in Cairo was the largest building on the boulevard where it still stands. Built to resemble what was imagined to be the design…

Wolin spent six years photographing a hundred Jewish residents of Wyoming, eventually publishing the photographs in a 2000 book, The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora. Her black-and-white…