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A Soviet Shtetl
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere. Thi…

Contributor:

Shmuel Gordon

Places:

Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1966

Subjects:

Shtetl, Cities, Social justice, Poverty, Modernity, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Dedicated to Lincoln’s Birthday
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Cover of Der groyser kundes: A zhurnal far humor, vitz un satire (Feb. 9, 1912), with a cartoon by Isidore Busatt, a cartoonist active in New York in the first half of the twentieth century. The…

Contributor:

Isidore Busatt

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Slavery, Modernity, Labor, Social justice, Assimilation, Humor, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Humor & Satire, Cartooning & graphic art
Page with Yiddish and English titles above drawing of a man in a tall black hat sitting on a large chair with a figure in chains kneeling in front of him next to a man tied to a post and a man wielding a whip, and two devilish figures drawn above the title.
Editorial: On Creating Barnard College
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At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…

Contributor:

Annie Nathan Meyer

Places:

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

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Education, Women, Social justice, Modernity, Cities, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling