Something about history which fascinates me is - time. The passage of time. And for this, reminisce...

Thank you, Gabriel, for a fascinating post! - S. For several years now, I have been doing researc...

From the American Israelite March 29, 1929. Note the very interesting remark that at times the Hild...

This is excerpted from Mrs. Julian Nathan's two-part article "A Woman's Impressions of...

Here's part of a great exchange in the pages of the American Hebrew in 1899, notably because o...

Here's a fascinating editorial note in the Nov 27, 1903 issue of the American Hebrew . As you c...

Here's an interesting part of Gotthard Deutsch's obituary for David Rosin in the American H...

This fascinating article is from the NY Herald , 1893. It must be noted - since not everyone reads ...

Any ideas? From Hoey's Dublin Mercury Dec 5, 1771.

May is about the time of year when I started On the Main Line. I don't know the exact date, because the April before is when I started ...

Here are a pair of ads from The Jewish Messenger in 1861, concerning a famous episode in the histo...

Here's a fine entry in Sewel's Compleat dictionary English and Dutch (Amsterdam 1766 ed.). ...

This account of a Jewish prostitute in London is from the 1793 edition Harris's List of Covent-...

R. Moshe Issserles. From  The Jewish Messenger , Sep. 8, 1865. c.f. this fo...

This appeared in the June 16, 1876 issue of The Jewish Times ; the author of this book  wished to ca...

Here's my almost-but-not-quite-perfect transcription of a letter to Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi ...

"Amendment one of the Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen full freed...

A JTA release from April 22, 1927 concerning the battles between the Chassidim and the rebbes of Mu...

This content is being reposted. Here is an interesting letter from H. Guedalia to the  Jewish Stan...

As you can see, I changed commenting platforms to Disqus. I hope this will solve the spam problem. Old comments are still importing, and I ...

Here's an interesting article about the Cecil Roth heresy scandal at Bar-Ilan University in 196...

Here is an interesting article about Yiddish from the American Hebrew (May 6, 1892). It's got e...