Shaul Banay
“I paint with one brush and two colors. The brush is my heart. The colors are the blood and fire of Treblinka, Maidanek and Auschwitz.” Shaul Banay has been painting […]
“I paint with one brush and two colors. The brush is my heart. The colors are the blood and fire of Treblinka, Maidanek and Auschwitz.” Shaul Banay has been painting […]
We did not talk “politics”. For the past years the participation of Poale Agudat Israel in the Mapai-led Israel cabinet and PAI’s relations with Agudat Israel, its parent body, have […]
Rebbetzin Chava Bacharach was an extraordinary woman. A granddaughter of the Maharal of Prague, a daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Kohen, the famous son-in-law of the Maharal, and the wife of […]
There is a difference between Begin the political speaker and Begin the lecturer. Begin’s political oratory is packed with emotion whereas the tone of his lectures is serene. There pathos […]
By Saul Lieberman and Tovia Preschel Isaac Rivkind came to the field of Jewish scholarship after years of intensive activity in the Zionist movement in Europe and the United States. […]
The main events reported in “Chronicles” are based on the Bible, ancient historical narratives and on the results of archaeological excavations. Naturally, many of the minor items as well as […]
By Bernard Postal and Samuel H. Abramson The Landmarks of a People, a Jewish tourist’s guide to Europe, is a book which fills a long-felt need. It will be deeply […]
In “Yiddish and English- A Century of Yiddish in America,” Sol Steinmetz set himself the task of describing the relationship between Yiddish and English and their influences on each other. […]
I have in front of me a volume of Hebrew poetry entitled “Gesharim” (Bridges). It was printed in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1942, and was one of the small number […]
More than a year ago I wrote in The Jewish Press about Rabbi Jacob Gellis’ project to assemble from printed works and manuscripts all the Biblical comments and interpretations of […]