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It was the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod— being sent by King Sargon of Assyria—and attacked Ashdod and took it. Previously, the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, untie the…
But a few years ago, before the outbreak of the world-wide European upheaval [World War I], no one even entertained the possibility that a center for the revelation and development of the Jewish…
On Sunday, 6 Tammuz, 5681 [July 12, 1921], I visited the author Maxim Gorky [ . . . ] and I told him the alarming news that had come to me from various cities about the horrible pogroms that had…
New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
The Book of the Ghetto Wars is intended to bring together a selection of the materials in our possession—testimony, journals and notes, documents, studies, poems, and stories—that were created during…
I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the…
The chapter of the wanderings of the Jews from Yemen to Aden remains shrouded in uncertainty. As of today, there has been no publication of a complete…
I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
Since the theme of the Noachide commandments has arisen for consideration, I shall mention here what I presented before the assembly of rabbis in the great city [Paris] in the year 5567 [1807], and it…
Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…
