Articles by Pearl (Preschel) Herzog

In the Jewish cemetery of Fez, Morrocco — the city we associate with the Rif and the Rambam — stands a monument, the gravesite of a beautiful young woman, who […]

Sarah Bayla Hirschenson,(1816-1905) a magnetic Rebbetzin from Pinsk was the first Ashkenazi woman of her time to learn to speak Arabic; she helped her husband establish Yeshivas in Tzfas and […]

Reputed to be the wealthiest woman in Germany in her time, Chaile Raphael Kaulla served as a treasurer at the Royal Wurttemberg court, while raising a family and supporting a […]

Regina Horowitz Margareten The Horowitz Margareten Company, known by its familiar blue and yellow boxes of Matzos has been a household name in Jewish homes around the world for more […]

Louis Felicien de Saulcy was searching for ancient coins. It was 1863 and the prominent French numismatist was excavating an area in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, not far from where […]

For more than four centuries, up until the the years between the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956, when a mass […]

Rectifying the Sin of the Tree of Knowledge. Back in the 18th century, a fascinating story circulated among Jews that the Queen of Prussia, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King […]