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Paintings with biblical themes were among the genres for which Solomon J. Solomon was best known and which made him popular with both the public and critics in Victorian England and France. Here, he…
Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Those who had no papers entitling them to live lined up to die. The whole North-west Station was a gigantic waiting-room. It was a long, long wait, but eventually everyone’s turn came. Those who…
The New York Yiddish Theater opened its London season that autumn with what the drama critic of our building, a watchmaker named Shmulik, described as a daring translation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing…
This ketubah (marriage contract) from London was written for the marriage of Isaac di Matos-Lopes and Sarah di Matos-Lopes. It also has, as one of its signatories, prominent scholar David Nieto, first…
During the night I have a vision of bedbugs in congress. A concrescence of male and female. The polluted mass pulsates, masculine organs pullulate, grow into dangerous spikes that, blinded by passion…