Articles by Pearl (Preschel) Herzog

Unfortunately, we have no contemporary Jewish sources regarding the Jewish community in the Hagiz (known today as Saudia Arabia) during the period of the establishment of Islam and Mohammad’s relationship […]

The Judith-“Milchig” Chanukah Connection by. Pearl Herzog When Chanukah arrives, many Jewish tables will tastily testify to the custom of eating dairy products over the course of those special eight […]

There’s a well known Jewish joke, that the last time a husband will have a chance to put his foot down will be at his Chupah, when he steps on […]

Four Jewish aristocratic families of Jerusalem  were exiled to Rome when Titus conquered that city  in 70 C.E and took the vessels of the Bais HaMikdash with him. Although there […]

The following story is believed to have taken place in Prague in the year 1577. It was repeated orally for several centuries until  the prominent  Jewish writer Salomon Kohen (1825-1904) […]

Nine years after the death of the Maharal, and a year after the last volume of Rabbi Heller’s Tosfos Yom Tov commentary on the Mishna was initially published in Prague, […]