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King Solomon, of blessed memory, wrote in Proverbs that one ought not to be too pious and one ought not to do too much evil. [The allusion, however, is to Ecclesiastes 7:16–17.] Accordingly, our sages…
We have a lovely tale at hand,
It’s come to us from a distant land,
That land is West India, and
Many people in the world
Call that area the New World.
Our tale’s about a wife who let her spouse
Leav…
Most of the immigrants came from Italy and Eastern Europe. They were taken in launches to Ellis Island. There, in a curiously ornate human warehouse of red brick and gray stone, they were tagged…
This excerpt from Kate Simon’s Bronx Primitive: Portraits in Childhood explores the controversial and secretive decision many immigrant women made to get an abortions, and the means of obtaining one.
Meanwhile, the beautiful Saâda wandered the streets of Blidah . . . She continued straight ahead, without purpose or thought.
She went . . . She found Blida banal with its one-story European…
Household of eight.
Beds are two.
When it gets late,
What do they do?
Three with father,
Three with mother:
Limbs
Over each other.
When it’s night
And they go to bed,
Mother begins
To wish she…
The pages of the book you are now holding in your hand have been soaked in blood and tears. Every word you are reading is a Jewish sigh; every letter is a groan, an akh, a sound of moaning from its…
From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion.
Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…
In our great city of New York, no practical question concerning the welfare of Judaism is of more vital importance than that of mission-work among the Jews. [ . . . ] The great every-day phrase, “we…
A Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…
