Articles by Pearl (Preschel) Herzog

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 […]

  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 […]

At the Gravesite of Menasseh Ben Israel Continued Sunday afternoon we visited the Portuguese Jewish cemetery in Ouderkirk, a village about five miles south of Amsterdam. The cemetery- the oldest […]

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 […]