From the The Morning Post, Oct. 16, 1854.

A few months ago the follow parody of the Ani Ma'amin appeared in the pages of the  Shabbos Blettel . The author (says he) is Harry Lips...

The other day I posted about the initial anonymity of Sefer Habris ( link ). Serendipitously I came across a very positive review of Sefer H...

One of the tragicomic things about reading 19th century magazines is to see how much the Europeans really hated one another. Like, real cont...

Here's a broadside featuring a hexalingual poem by John Walker, dated August 31, 1660.

But read to the end! Jonathan Rosenblum's piece in Mishpacha Magazine, On Writing Gadol Biographies , just appeared on Cross Curren...

The Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies just launched a fascinating digital exhibit, on the Raphael Loewe Archives ( link ). Rapha...

A couple of years ago I posted about Rabbi Hirsch Denmark, who dazzled audiences all over Europe in the 1840s with his apparent ability to d...

Here's a really interesting letter that was printed in the August 3, 1860 issue of the Hebrew Review. The writer, who coyly signed Emet...

Here's a strange thing. It is a letter dated September 1663 to the king of England, evidently Charles II , from a person calling himsel...

Recently I was visiting a choshuve home, and I picked up a book that looked interesting, as it indeed was. It was " The Rav Hakolel...

When Malbim was considered for the post of Chief Rabbi of New York (see  here ) the American Israelite was not a fan of the suggestion (Aug...

The current issue of Ami Magazine has as striking image illustrating the cover story, "Orthodox Community Under Attack By The Press,...