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Slobodan Milošević addresses Serbs at Gazimestan, the field in Kosovo where Serbs lost the Battle of Kosovo to the Turks in 1389. The speech was part of a daylong event to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle, June 28, 1989
Slobodan Milošević addresses Serbs at Gazimestan, the field in Kosovo where Serbs lost the Battle of Kosovo to the Turks in 1389. The speech was part of a daylong event to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle, June 28, 1989

text and textiles

A Passover towel created by Lisette Harf Nathan (1880-1941) in Wickrath, Germany. Embroidery on linen, circa 1904

Wall-hanging by Berthold Wolpe (1905-1989), Offenbach, Germany, circa 1925. Linen embroidered with linen thread

Passover Table Cover created in Iran circa 1920

Bas relief of Maimonides in the U.S House of Representatives
Bas relief of Maimonides in the U.S House of Representatives
The Naked Vegan Tolstoy of the Lower East Side

Moyshe Littauer introduces urban Jews to nature, and the world to Jews in their natural state

byEddy Portnoy
Jews in the Wilderness

One man’s role in the shaping of the nation’s best-loved and most spectacular long-distance footpath reminds us of the close, if often disregarded, bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape

byMichael Hoberman
The Naked Vegan Tolstoy of the Lower East Side

Moyshe Littauer introduces urban Jews to nature, and the world to Jews in their natural state

byEddy Portnoy
Separating Pearls From Sand
byJoseph A. Skloot
Jews in the Wilderness

One man’s role in the shaping of the nation’s best-loved and most spectacular long-distance footpath reminds us of the close, if often disregarded, bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape

byMichael Hoberman
Separating Pearls From Sand
byJoseph A. Skloot

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Covering Their Tracks

Episode 3: The Hearing

We meet a second person connected to the SNCF deportations, Rosette Goldstein, and the fight for justice gets political

January 31, 2024

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Covering Their Tracks

Episode 2: Convoy #42

A young Leo Bretholz is boarded onto a cattle car headed toward Auschwitz, and after a daring escape, begins the long journey toward safety, and sharing his story in America

January 24, 2024

Reading Origen in Jerusalem

A collection of 29 recently discovered homilies by the early Church Father offers dazzling insight into a shared late antique universe of Christians and Jews

byGuy Stroumsa
Jerusalem as the Omphalos of the World

For Jerusalem Day, the origins of a geographical concept in Jewish anti-Greek and anti-Roman polemic

byPhilip Alexander
Reading Origen in Jerusalem

A collection of 29 recently discovered homilies by the early Church Father offers dazzling insight into a shared late antique universe of Christians and Jews

byGuy Stroumsa
Jerusalem as the Omphalos of the World

For Jerusalem Day, the origins of a geographical concept in Jewish anti-Greek and anti-Roman polemic

byPhilip Alexander

on resurrection

‘He sits and plays with Leviathan, as it says, “There is Leviathan, whom you formed to play there.”’
‘He sits and plays with Leviathan, as it says, “There is Leviathan, whom you formed to play there.”’
The 12 Covenants of Pinchas Hurwitz

How an 18th-century Eastern European kabbalist Jew produced one of the first Hebrew bestsellers

byDavid B. Ruderman
Gay, Muslim, and Jewish in Berlin

A new biography explores the life of Hugo Marcus, a gay Jew who played a key role in the establishment of Islam in Germany before fleeing from Hitler

byMardean Isaac
The God That Failed

The collection of essays by disillusioned former communists has been largely forgotten after decades of global popularity. In our age of ideological extremism, it’s well worth revisiting.

byShalom Goldman
The 12 Covenants of Pinchas Hurwitz

How an 18th-century Eastern European kabbalist Jew produced one of the first Hebrew bestsellers

byDavid B. Ruderman
Gay, Muslim, and Jewish in Berlin

A new biography explores the life of Hugo Marcus, a gay Jew who played a key role in the establishment of Islam in Germany before fleeing from Hitler

byMardean Isaac
How Felix Frankfurter traded Judaism for the 'true democratic faith'
How Felix Frankfurter traded Judaism for the 'true democratic faith'
In the early 1800s, no American trader smuggled more opium into China than Thomas Perkins. Known for aggressive risk-taking, Perkins commanded a global trading empire from his headquarters in Boston.
In the early 1800s, no American trader smuggled more opium into China than Thomas Perkins. Known for aggressive risk-taking, Perkins commanded a global trading empire from his headquarters in Boston.

judaica americana

A recent auction at Kestenbaum and Company included a large offering of Americana that focused on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters, and printed books.

A carte-de-visite photograph of General Quincy Gilmore (seated with walking stick) posing with four staff members including Alfred Mordechai Jr. (1840-1920), back row, middle. Mordechai graduated West Point like his father and became an authority in the field of ordnance (mounted guns and artillery) and ended his career with the rank of brigadier general.

A photograph taken at St. Peter’s Church in Yorktown depicting a camp of soldiers that includes “French’s Brigade,” a distinguished regiment that contained a large number of Jewish soldiers.

A carte-de-visite photograph of Captain Solomon Myers (1829-86) of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry. Myers served from September 13, 1861 to October 13, 1864.

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Jasper Johns, 'Flags I,' 1973
Jasper Johns, 'Flags I,' 1973
Hillel Unsdorfer carries a Torah on his way to Egyptian captivity along with his unit, 1973. About his decision, he said, ‘Most of us felt we should take the Torah with us to Egypt because it watched over us while we were fighting. We felt it should stay with us and continue to guard us.’
Hillel Unsdorfer carries a Torah on his way to Egyptian captivity along with his unit, 1973. About his decision, he said, ‘Most of us felt we should take the Torah with us to Egypt because it watched over us while we were fighting. We felt it should stay with us and continue to guard us.’
Hillel Unsdorfer carries a Torah on his way to Egyptian captivity along with his unit, 1973. About his decision, he said, ‘Most of us felt we should take the Torah with us to Egypt because it watched over us while we were fighting. We felt it should stay with us and continue to guard us.’
Hillel Unsdorfer carries a Torah on his way to Egyptian captivity along with his unit, 1973. About his decision, he said, ‘Most of us felt we should take the Torah with us to Egypt because it watched over us while we were fighting. We felt it should stay with us and continue to guard us.’

Miriam, Music, and the Exodus

Top left, a man standing, lifting up a bunch of green leaves and pointing to the word ‘maror.’ Below, also in blue, Miriam, plays the timbrel accompanied by a group of maidens. Some consider Miriam (sister of Moses) a prophetess who played a significant role in the Exodus.

Image of a folio from the Yahuda Haggadah that dates to 1470-80 Franconia (a region of Germany). (Credit: National Library of Israel)
Image of a folio from the Yahuda Haggadah that dates to 1470-80 Franconia (a region of Germany). (Credit: National Library of Israel)
Der Seelen Wurzgarten, Ulm: Konrad Dinckmut, 1483
Der Seelen Wurzgarten, Ulm: Konrad Dinckmut, 1483
A diagram representing rabbinic interactions in the Babylonian Talmud
A diagram representing rabbinic interactions in the Babylonian Talmud
The Temple of Bel Palmyra, Syria
The Temple of Bel Palmyra, Syria
Charles Joseph Staniland, engraving of Jewish immigrants arriving in New York, 1892
Charles Joseph Staniland, engraving of Jewish immigrants arriving in New York, 1892
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