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The Early Years Of The JNF And Three Of Its Lesser Known Leading Pioneers
Over a century before the Holocaust, Rav Alkalai predicted that 1940 would be a year of great hardship with an outpouring of wrath that will lead to the gathering of our dispersed in Eretz Yisrael and...
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Freeing Agunot After The Holocaust
A series of documents I acquired recently tells one such situation, where a woman who survived the war, but whose husband did not, spent several years dealing with the halachic ramifications that...
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Who Is Buried In Yad Avshalom?
While it is now known that Yad Avshalom was built about 1,000 years after the death of the Biblical Avshalom, it is not known who commissioned the monument – although the Biblical account in Shmuel Bet...
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A Holocaust Refugee’s Telegram
Two Western Union Telegrams I acquired recently tell the story of one Jew that managed to escape from Poland and some of the challenges he encountered.
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Silver Standards & Tchotchke Rings
These rings appear from time to time in small auction houses that specialize in selling the entire contents of estates, and typically sell in the range of between $150 and $350.
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The Link Between The JNF And Tisha B’Av And Other Miscellaneous Tisha B’Av Items
As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden, reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia.
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An Envelope From Theresienstadt
A collection I acquired recently contained an unusual surviving document, an envelope sent by Leo Baeck from the Theresienstadt concentration camp, to Saly Mayer (1882-1950), leader of Switzerland's...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s A Tale Of Jerusalem And Palestine
Poe's best-known fiction works are Gothic horror, and his most recurring themes deal with questions of death and other macabre topics, such as its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns...
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Trying To Hide Their Jewishness In Nazi Germany
In this poster, the organization expresses the idea that the majority of German Jews identify more with their German identity than with their Judaism, and that Zionists, who are not willing to...
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Ralph Baer: The Jewish Holocaust Survivor Who Invented The Video Game
Over the course of his life, his inventions and over 150 U.S. and international patents have contributed to the advancement of military defense, including tracking systems for submarines, and to...
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A Satirical Talmud
These satirical works were written in the style and language of the Talmud, duplicating the layout and fonts of the standard Talmudic page, with a main text in the center flanked by commentaries in...
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The Art And Judaism Of Al Hirschfeld
Perhaps as a result of what he himself characterized as his mother’s “made-up Judaism, Hirschfeld rejected Orthodox Judaism. Nonetheless, he always believed that he belonged to a great heritage going...
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Baba Sali Before His Famed Miracles
Following his elder brother's murder, the Baba Sali was appointed head of the community, but fearing continuing antisemitism, his family and much of the community moved to the town of Boudenib, where...
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Charles Netters And The Founding Of Mikveh Israel
To assure that its graduating students would not experience financial problems, the school paid each of them 1,000 francs, but that largesse proved unnecessary because virtually all of them quickly...
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A Memorial Book That Led To Four Arrests
This week I acquired a copy of this now scarce title, titled Baruch Hagever, a memorial book for Baruch Goldstein, the perpetrator of the Hebron mass shooting.
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Sotheby’s Magic (Jewish) Carpet Ride
The star attraction of the auction was The David Moss Haggadah, which is a masterful work of modern manuscript-making by the artist David Moss.
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The Children’s Poems And Songs Of Levin Kipnis
Kipnis was a leading pioneer of the Diaspora-negating Zionist narrative and one of its most active proponents, and much of his work was purposely designed to replace Diasporan poems, stories,...
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The Children’s Poems And Songs Of Levin Kipnis
Kipnis was a leading pioneer of the Diaspora-negating Zionist narrative and one of its most active proponents, and much of his work was purposely designed to replace Diasporan poems, stories,...
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18th Century Censorship Of Jewish Books
Originally the censors focused on religious works, particularly Kabbalastic and chasidic works. However, with time, they took on a political bent as well, promoting ideas favorable to the government...
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War-Wounded Soldiers And Civilians Touch The Southern Israel Skies
By re-imagining rehabilitation, ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran is advancing ability for all – empowering children, adolescents and adults with severe disabilities and pioneering cutting edge therapeutic and...
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