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The Settlement Cook Book, first published in 1901 as a pamphlet, soon became a mainstay of American domestic culture and was published in more than forty editions before its final publication in 1991…
Der fraynd (The Friend) was the first Yiddish daily in the Russian Empire. Founded by Shaul Ginzburg in St. Petersburg in 1903, Der fraynd was for several years the only Yiddish daily permitted in the…
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…
Cover of sheet music for “Hatikvoh” (The Hope) and “Dort vu die tseder” (There Where the Cedars Are). “Hatikvoh,” or “Hatikvah,” is based on Naftali Hertz Imber’s poem, “Tikvatenu” (Our Hope), first…
Poster for Wilhelm Wachtel’s exhibition in Lwów (Lviv), 1912.
This calendar, Almanac for the Year 5675: Souvenir der Hochschule Bar Iochai und Altenhaus in Miron, was probably a fundraising giveaway for an old-age home and for the high school that Eliezer Ya…
This is a program for an October 26, 1898, production of Mirele Efros at the Thalia Theatre, located at 46–48 Bowery on New York City’s Lower East Side.
Napoleon Sarony took this photograph of Alla Nazimova in the English-language performance of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Alla Nazimova (1879–1945) was born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon in Yalta, Crimea, to…
Flyer for Bar Giora, an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell by David Yellin, organized by drama class participants from the Moriah School. Students performed the play several times during…
Alfred Wolmark painted Fisher Girl of Concarneau during a ten-week honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany. He was fascinated by the town’s people and scenery. While in Concarneau, he painted several…
