How does one drown out the name of the most hated, evil man in the Megillah? By making good use of a Christian folk tradition of course!
Celebrating in the Shadow of WWII: “Jewish Photos” from September 1939
For two and a half years, the weekly magazine “Yiddishe Bilder” aimed to become a Jewish version of Life magazine. The fall of 1939 was marked by both the Jewish holiday season and the guns of war…
A Memory of the Last Jews of Yemen
In the 1980s, photographer, painter and poet Myriam Tangi took three separate trips to Yemen in the hopes of photographing the last Jews living in the country.
In Color: Photos of Libyan Jews Brought to Life
These historical photographs documenting Jewish communities in Libya now appear more life-like than ever.
In the Shadow of Death: The Revival of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Rare photographs newly revealed by the National Library of Israel document the cultural life of the Vilna Ghetto in the years 1942-1943.
Elementary, My Dear Golem
What does the great Jewish mystic known as “The Maharal” have to do with Sherlock Holmes? This is the story of a manuscript “discovered” at the dawn of the twentieth century, which began a new genre in Hebrew literature.
