On the Main Line
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Recalling the musical 'aptitude' of British Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell, and his attitude toward singing Kaddish to a tune from the opera Don Juan

›
Something about history which fascinates me is - time. The passage of time. And for this, reminisce...
3 comments:
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The Recent Mesorah of NakhScroll Publication; a guest post by Gabriel Wasserman

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

A 1929 appeal for easing the Slabodka Yeshiva's $50,000 deficit

›
From the American Israelite March 29, 1929. Note the very interesting remark that at times the Hild...
1 comment:
Monday, May 20, 2013

Mrs. Julian Nathan's meeting with R. Chaim Leib Auerbach in 1922

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

Israel Davidson, a 19th century Hebrew translation of "Yankee Doodle" and Michael Rodkinson's lack of English

›
Here's part of a great exchange in the pages of the American Hebrew in 1899, notably because o...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

A 1903 critique of the RJJ yeshiva's dual Torah and Madda curriculum

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

A 'Conservative,' Reform, and Orthodox rabbi (so to speak*) on the possibility of teaching old school piety and Torah scholarship in America in the late 19th century

›
Here's an interesting part of Gotthard Deutsch's obituary for David Rosin in the American H...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Turkish censors of Armenian Bible, remove the tale of Joseph "out of consideration for Mrs. Potiphar," in 1893

›
This fascinating article is from the NY Herald , 1893. It must be noted - since not everyone reads ...
3 comments:
Friday, May 10, 2013

Who was the 6' 3" tall, 103 year-old, clear-sighted, ascetic rabbi in Dublin in 1771?

›
Any ideas? From Hoey's Dublin Mercury Dec 5, 1771.
4 comments:
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Happy Anniversary, me

›
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 ...
20 comments:
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

A pair of ads about New York's bleeding cattle controversy, 1861

›
Here are a pair of ads from The Jewish Messenger in 1861, concerning a famous episode in the histo...
1 comment:
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

The Shabbos Goy in an English-Dutch dictionary from 1766

›
Here's a fine entry in Sewel's Compleat dictionary English and Dutch (Amsterdam 1766 ed.). ...
Monday, May 06, 2013

A 1793 review of a Jewish prostitute in London

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

A different kind of Lag B'omer yahrzeit celebration in 1865

›
R. Moshe Issserles. From  The Jewish Messenger , Sep. 8, 1865. c.f. this fo...
3 comments:
Friday, May 03, 2013

Intellectual honesty - making a public correction to a book in 1876

›
This appeared in the June 16, 1876 issue of The Jewish Times ; the author of this book  wished to ca...
5 comments:
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

A 19th century letter concerning the Baal Shem of London

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

The En Kelohenu is trefah - a Reform polemic against Orthodoxy's Inconsistency from 1919

›
"Amendment one of the Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen full freed...
8 comments:
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

מלחמות השם

›
A JTA release from April 22, 1927 concerning the battles between the Chassidim and the rebbes of Mu...
3 comments:
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Bar Yochaiiana in honor of Lag B'omer

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

Comments

›
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 ...
15 comments:
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

A defense of Cecil Roth against the charge of heresy

›
Here's an interesting article about the Cecil Roth heresy scandal at Bar-Ilan University in 196...
9 comments:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Lewis Dembitz's 1892 article on Yiddish-Zhargon

›
Here is an interesting article about Yiddish from the American Hebrew (May 6, 1892). It's got e...
28 comments:
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My Photo
Mississippi Fred MacDowell
I'd love to hear from you, so please email me!
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger