It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale

Tokhaḥat megula (The Admonition of Magula)

Here is a song that I created, well composed and uncomplicated; you can call it a song or call it a dirge. I’d like to tell you some of my troubles: some men have problems by…

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Three drawings of faces with floral designs.

Faces decorating a siddur

These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…

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