1925-26 broadside from European and EY rabbis, including the (late) Chafetz Chaim, Rav Kook, Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer, and others, against me...

Here's a piece in Hamelitz about a telegram from Mrs. Netziv, Rabbanit Batya Mirel (Epstein) Berlin, asking people to say tehillim for h...

Hi there. Yes, I know many many of my old posts are missing the pictures. Luckily I have them all saved and given time and money I surely ...

Here's a vintage early WWII-era British joke "Chamberlain = Chaim Berlin," etc.

Here's a story from a newspaper in West Virginia* all about yarmulkes and YU. Check out those Stern girls at the bottom knitting yarmu...

Israel Zangwill explains the rules for Sabbath observance on vacations in 1889.

This is a story from 1868 about the time Rabbi Eliyahu Soloveitchik was arrested as part of a ruble forgery ring. Note: Although the charg...

Here's a fortunately mistaken news item from 1919 about Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk.

This is a Hebrew letter from Ernest Renan to Rabbi Jacob Saphir, after he gifted him with a copy of his incredible travelogue Even Sapir ....

Well, I think it hasn't been called attention to before. This appeared in the American Israelite on October 16, 1902. The author i...

1. Here we've got a prayer composed for New York Governor George Clinton and אדוננו General דשארדש וואשנגטן in 1784.  ...

This is sweet. In 1899 Wichita, Kansas very nearly elected Miss Sadie Joseph queen of the Flower Parade at the Fall Carnival, because they ...

Book Announcement: הגדה של פסח "אשירה ואשננה בחשיקות" מאת גבריאל וסרמן I heartily endorse this. Gabriel is a fine scholar...

Definitely worth posting this footage of the Chafetz Chaim in 1923. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzouH7unTbY#t=16 Here are some still...

Here's an 1830 portrait of Maimonides, dressed as a Galician rabbi.

Here's an interesting page from the Voice of Jacob 's October 1841 issue - the periodicals' second. It gives the guidelines for...

In case you weren't sure how they felt about the Czar (from the safety of New York, naturally). ...

Here are some fantastic pictures of R. Hermann Adler (1839-1911) at various stages of his life, from a boy of 8 to yeshiva bochur at 17, ...

Here is an interesting image (that exists in many versions, it seems it was something of a popular picture) depicting a Jew from Muncacz and...

Here's a rather trenchant criticism against a man far more learned than this suggests. From the American Israelite  (September 20, 1867)...

Here's an interesting little story about the reading room in the NYPL in 1925. An impressive, scholarly looking Chassidic man is spotte...

Here's a little blurb about some recognition of the yeshiva of Volozhin by the Russian government. Apparently this recognition meant th...

From 1935.

Here's a wonderful appeal for matzot on behalf of prisoners, from 1899.

My great-grandfather's chumash and siddur with piyutim By David Roth, in collaboration with Gabriel Wasserman I'm pleased...