The descendant of Portuguese Jews who emigrated from Holland to the Caribbean in the seventeenth century, Jacob Abraham Jesurun was a merchant in Curaçao, where his company owned several ships as well as a wharf, dockyard, and coal depot.
Our state is young, with a girl’s years, just fourteen. Still without her shoes, as the poet says. But she seems old, many generations old. In these few years, old age has pounced on her. No one is…
The ethos of the Photo League, the cooperative that Sid Grossman co-founded, was that documenting everyday life was a way not only of recording social progress but also contributing to it, by helping…
The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This printed ketubah created by…