Esther Play for Purim

Photograph of ornamental Torah ark chamber with gilded columns and doors with filigree and Hebrew writing.

Urbino Synagogue, Italy

This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…

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Letters to Shimon Dubnow

To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907 I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . . I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…

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Photograph of mother kissing her son, who has a gun and a backpack, in foreground, while another soldier waits in the background on his horse holding the reins of another horse.

Leaving a Son to the Partisans, Leningrad

Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…

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Esther Play for Purim

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