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Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are…
Bill Gold designed more than one poster for Casablanca, including one featuring Humphrey Bogart wielding a gun. Over his seventy-year career, he designed thousands of movie posters, tailoring the…
This hand-drawn map of Hebron, Israel, is from an autograph manuscript of Melekhet Shelomoh (The Work of Solomon), Solomon Adeni’s commentary on the Mishnah.
The Synagogue Mejor is a synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, built in the late fifteenth century by Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Majorca. Its name “Mejor” commemorates the…
In 1991, Israel launched Operation Solomon, a covert military operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) to Israel. Fourteen thousand men, women, and children were transported to Israel over…
Ralph Bakshi’s American Pop is an animated musical that chronicles the history of American popular music through the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians. To…
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1882 by members of a Jewish nationalist association from northeastern Romania. These immigrants, the…
Yizkor: Tsum ondenk fun di gefalene vekhter un arbeyter in erets-yisroel (Yizkor: In Memory of the Fallen Watchmen and Workers in the Land of Israel) commemorates fallen Jewish guards and workers who…
Immigrants on a ship from Hamburg, Germany, arriving in New York, December 10, 1906. They were among the 15 million immigrants who came to the United States between 1900 and 1915. Most of the…
The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…
