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Perhaps the most difficult question we have been asked in the course of compiling this catalog has been, “What exactly is it?” Having realized quite early that there are no preexisting…
Katherine M. Cohen created a number of sculptures that explored Jewish themes, including Jewish Scholar. She also sculpted, on commission, portrait busts of prominent Philadelphia Jews, such as Judge…
The idea of publishing a complete History of the Jews in Russia scarcely calls for extensive explanations or justifications. Russian Jewry, which quantitatively represents the most significant…
Society of “Hebrew Language Lovers” [Ḥoveve sefat ‘ever]Moscow BranchMaruseyka, 10 Kosmodimian AlleyTelephone: 180-53Moscow, 24 Adar 5677 [March 18, 1917]To Mr. Ḥ.N. Bialik in Odessa,Honored Friend!Th…
The behavior of the Jews in most places generally follows the behavior of the [local] Christians—(Sefer ḥasidim [Book of the Pious, 13th century] § 1106)
The present volume is a continuation…
Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
We are calling upon the Hungarian general public and especially our Jewish coreligionists to support a new undertaking. Our undertaking does not seek to compete with an existing one; rather, it…
This is the statement of the author, Mordechai Ha-kohen, son of My Lord, My Father Rabbi Yehudah, son of Marco (Mordechai), son of Abraham Israel Hakohen, born in Tripoli, Africa, on the twenty-fifth…
This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
To Mr. Sh. Dubnow, St. Petersburg
Moscow, Jan. 8, 1907
I received your letter, and thank you for everything you told me about. . . .
I have already heard about the classes you are giving on Genesis…