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The art of chiromancy (palmistry), which divines a person’s nature and often his or her future by examining the palm and fingers (and sometimes forehead), dates back to the ancient Near East and…
A prayer (Ha-nerot halalu anu madlikin (“These lights we burn”), usually recited after the blessings for lighting the Hanukkah candles, is inscribed on the back panel of this Hanukkah lamp from…
The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…
This bilingual Yiddish-English cover of a program for a variety show at Irving Music Hall on New York City’s Lower East Side advertises “high class Jewish vaudeville” and bills itself as “the finest…
This full-page advertisement for a benefit lunch, to be held that day, December 14, 1898, at the Thalia Theater in New York City, with the famed Yiddish actress Bertha Kalich (ca. 1872–1939), includes…
Shmuel Schulman’s micrograph is a tribute to Ḥoveve Zion, members of a nineteenth-century Zionist movement that sent pioneers to Palestine to develop settlements funded by Baron Edmond James de…
This wedding riddle from Italy is written in Hebrew and Judeo-Italian. Wedding songs, sometimes performed by professional jesters, were traditional at Jewish weddings. Some had lyrics in the form of…
Pages from Mark Podwal’s A Book of Hebrew Letters, an exploration of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet through drawings and words representing each letter.
Front page of the first issue of Moledet (Homeland), a Hebrew monthly for youth created by Simḥah Ben-Tsiyon and published by the Hebrew Teacher’s Union in Palestine from 1911 to 1946. The goal of the…
Cover of Arabish-yidisher lehrer: Veg vayzer far di yidishe legyoneren in Tsiyen (Arabic-Yiddish Teacher: A guide for Jewish legionnaires in Zion). This self-guided primer on Palestinian Arabic for…
