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After long deliberation, I concluded that we would be making a grave mistake if we did not participate in the upcoming kehilah electio…
Osher Margolis was one of a handful of Soviet professional historians of Jewry. Like the others, he brought a Marxist perspective to his work. The work below, though focused on the nineteenth…
When the leaders of the people were assembled, all the tribes of Israel together, on the evening of the twenty-first day of Adar 5572, to oversee the affairs of the general community and the needs of…
Anyone familiar with our Russian Poland knows what Jews mean by a small shtetl, a little town.
A small shtetl has a few small cabins, and a fair every other Sunday. The Jews deal in liquor, grain…
No one may accommodate non-Jews [in the synagogue] without the permission of the mahamad [board of governors].
In the past, it was promulgated that no person may get up from his place to go to greet…
The heads of the Communities have gathered here at Frankfort at the order of our masters, the Sages of Germany, to sit in council and look into the needs of the community and to make such ordinances…
In the presence of all the rabbis and the entire council (qri’ah) of Rome, the Scuola Catalana-Aragonese [Catalan-Aragonese Congregation] agrees to release Giuseppe Picciotto from a ban (niddui). The…
Everyone shall sit in his place as of this day the way he sits and stands now, and no one may go out of his place where he sits on this day, and not drive away anyone from his…
There may not be in this [city of] Recife and Antonio Vaz any congregation beyond that which exists today—may God enlarge it—and, if there be now or at any time anyone who contests this matter, the…
We have accepted upon ourselves the rabbi, aluf, the gaon, our teacher and master R. Isaiah ben R. Abraham ha-Levi, of blessed memory, to serve as our av bet din [head of the court] and rosh yeshiva…