The Sarajevo Haggadah
Emperor Franz Joseph’s nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Princess Sophia were on their way to open the State Museum in its new premises and view the Sarajevo Haggadah […]
Jews and the Civil War
The American Civil War (April 1861-May 1865) was fought by over three million soldiers.. At the time, the U.S. boasted a population of 27 million, eighteen million in the […]
HARAV MOSHE CAPSALI, CHACHAM BASHI OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Sultan Mehmed II was one of the most powerful men in the world during the 15th century. He was only 11 years old when he ascended the throne of the […]
Four Rare Commentaries on Esther
With the approach of Purim, Chaim Eleazar Reich, Boro Park’s publisher of rare books, has put out reproductions of four old commentaries on Esther. R. Zecharya Ibn Saruk was an […]
Shabbat Teshuva — Shabbat Beinataim
The Sabbath Between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is called Shabbath Teshuva (Sabbath of Repentance) or Shabbat Shuva (named for the Haftara Shuvu Yisrael — Hosea 14: 2-10– which is […]
Yad HaRav Nissim
In recent years, we have seen the emergence in Jerusalem of an important new Torah teaching and research center: Yad HaRav Nissim, established in memory of the late Rishon LeTzion […]
Valmadonna Trust Exhibition at the Pierpoint Library
It is a measure of the great interest in old Hebrew manuscripts and books that not long after “A Sign and a Witness” an exhibition which brought together 186 Hebrew […]
Isaac Lewin’s Latest book ‘In Defense of Human Rights’
Dr. Isaac Lewin has been active throughout his life in two distinct areas of human endeavor. He is a scholar, a distinguished historian of Polish Jewry and has played a […]
The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz
On March 19, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary. Before long anti-Jewish laws were introduced, Jews were arrested, Jewish property was confiscated, ghettos were established and the mass deportation […]
A Note on a Yom Kippur Piyut
During the last one hundred and fifty years great rabbis and scholars wrote important and interesting notes on the prayers and Piytim, but because these were published in periodicals or […]