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This engraving depicting a Jewish wedding procession was an illustration in a four-volume book by Johann Jakob Schudt (1664–1722), Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten (Jewish Curiosities), published in Germany…
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Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
This portrait of Dorothy Richman, a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York, appeared in Leibovitz’s 1999 book, Women. Richman was one of the first female rabbinical…
Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
We, the undersigned, came in to visit the honorable lady Rosa Romanina, widow of R. Moses Guastalla of blessed memory, a resident of Rivarolo, and found her sick, lying on her bed, but her words and…
The deed of will which is thus worded. In the community of Israel we have faithfully declared that we the undersigned are witnesses that it is a true and firm fact that the deceased lady, Sra. Rachel…
In the Name of God Amen I Simja de Tores latte of Jamaica Widow being indisposed, and weak in body but of sound mind and memorey and knowin the Certenty of death and the Uncertanity of Its Approch doe…
Considering the great harm and dangers that have befallen the religious communities of Israel on account of overdressing both by women and by young men, we, the undersigned honorable parnasim…
The text on this inscription, dating from the establishment of the Rema Synagogue in Krákow, reads, in part: “The man, R. Israel ben Joseph (of blessed memory), gathered his strength, for the honor of…
