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On Emancipation and Jewish Education
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Throughout the duration of the exile of Israel, Jews worshiped God in awe, and from the time that freedom was granted to them and the exile of the body was made easier, the exile of the soul increased…

Contributor:

Shaul Brach

Places:

Kasho, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Košice, Slovakia)
Kasho (Košice, Slovakia)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Education, Exile, Emancipation, Assimilation, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
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Letter on Education
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911]. To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov), My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…

Contributor:

Israel Perlow

Places:

Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Hasidism, Education, Piety, Conservative Judaism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling
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Sermon: On the Secularization and Degradation of Iraqi Jewry
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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…

Contributor:

Shimon Aghasi

Places:

Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Orthodox Judaism, Torah study, Sin, Punishment, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology, Speeches
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The Wars of the Lord
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10. And now, with the Lord’s help, we will return to our primary question: We asked you to tell us, according to the opinion of the kabbalists, to whom do we say our prayers, and make all of our…

Contributor:

Yiḥye Qafeh

Places:

Sana'a, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Mysticism, Theology, Halakhah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology
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Almanac for the Year 5675
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm] Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days) [Hebrew Date] [Day of the week] [Christian Date] [Islamic Date] 1st Thursday Se…

Contributor:

Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Calendar, Holidays, Jewish identity, Prayer, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Lists & Catalogues, History
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Free Love
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I do not believe in free love. There is legal marriage, an institution based on ideas and pretenses. A legally married wife you can divorce, but where will you run away from free love? As for…

Contributor:

Moyshe Nadir

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Humor, Sex, Marriage, Adultery, Liberalism

Categories:

Performing Arts, Popular Poetry, Music
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Porke no? (Can a Sephardic-Ashkenazic Romance Survive? A Russian Jewish Woman in New York Seeks Advice)
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To the editor of La Bos del Pueblo: I am a Jewish girl born in Russia who came to America eight years ago. Although I am not remarkably well-educated, I have always wanted to marry a well-educated boy…

Contributor:

Clara

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Love, Jewish languages, Ladino

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage
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Rigoletto in Yiddish: A Notable Triumph
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Performing arts, Music

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Firsthand Accounts
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Ceramic Hanukkah Lamp from Algeria
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This terracotta Hanukkah lamp from Cabilia (?), Algeria, is decorated with painted black triangular shapes (possibly representing humanoid figures) on a background of yellow, with edging in reddish…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Algeria)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Hanukkah, Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Maghrebi, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Oil lamp with geometric carvings.
Torah Pointer from Poland
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This silver Torah pointer from Poland is inscribed in Hebrew: “The hand [i.e., pointer] of Joseph Halevi, crowned with success, donated in the name of his son Abraham on the eve of R[osh] H[ashanah]…

Contributor:

Noah Joel Feivish

Places:

Poland

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Ritual object, Synagogue, Torah study, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
Object with hook and Hebrew imprinted along decorative handle.

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