Wedding Riddle

These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…

Listen, my friends, pay attention! Be silent, do not restrain me, Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful, His heart and tongue in two directions pull; If not, why did he leave his native…

In 1829, German Jewish metallurgist Lewis Feuchtwanger attempted to introduce a metal alloy known as “German silver” into U.S. coinage, promoting this nickel silver as a less-expensive alternative for…