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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…
Moriah SoiréeBar GioraA Play in Seven ActsBy: David YellinAdapted from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell(On the life of the Jews before the destruction of the Second Temple and their overthrowing of the Roman…
Very little is known about the actor Siegfried Berisch (1877–1933). He started out performing in the cabaret and German Jewish theater scenes in Berlin and Vienna. Berisch’s first major role was in Sc…
This poster was published by the Jewish Welfare Board in the United States just prior to the armistice bringing World War I to a halt. The message was to elicit support from Jewish civilians for the…
The wealthy Sephardic family of Curiel d’Acosta is believed to have commissioned the artist Romeyn de Hooghe to make this large pen-and-ink drawing to commemorate the circumcision, in Amsterdam, of a…
[Picture 1]I am king Solomon With scepter and crown Pikkolo is my chancellor. He stands near my throne.
In placing before the public this account of the Bene-Israel of the Bombay Presidency, we think we need make no apology for having selected a subject in which the civilized world has already…
Gathering the sources was a modern way of closing ranks, of reaffirming the essential unity of Jewish experience as one vale of tears through space and time. The harder the times, the more desperately…
Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…
There is no denying that under the influence of this enthusiasm for America, the disintegrating process of the Melting Pot is taking place in large measure. That it is not, fortunately, taking place…