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We have been implored to print the following letter:Dear Mrs. Bernadzikowska-Belović,I am an eager reader of the Bosnische Post and, especially, of your short feature pieces and articles, which are my…
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…
As the day approaches for the election of the Knesset and the local and municipal authorities, Sephardi and oriental Jewish leaders evince increasing alertness to the…
This engraving portrays Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a rabbi, kabbalist, and preacher, born in Castro Daire, Portugal, to a family of New Christians. He arrived in Amsterdam with his family at the age of…
We the undersigned have agreed that, seeing the difficulty that there is to collect what every particular member of our Nation must…
Baghdad-born Suleiman (Saliman) Menaḥem Mani (1850–1924) held many important posts in Ottoman Palestine, including chief rabbi of Hebron. He was also a Hebrew poet and fiction writer and the author of…
When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
In one of the recent issues of Ha-Melits, which for unknown reasons I only received today, I read about Mr. W. Shor’s complaint about the Serbian Jews’ refusal to accept Jews, persecuted in other…
We Jews, the first nation in the world that began not only to mark but also to appraise and to judge the generations, evaluate eras on the basis of different criteria, namely, how much refinement is…
Eliseba Lopes Suasso de Pinto, a member of the Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish community, was the wife of Abraham Suasso da Costa, a banker in the Hague. In this portrait, she is depicted smiling, in…
