Here's an interesting little aside in a book called Incidents of Social Life Amid the European Alp s, an English translation from 1844 o...

Here's an interesting and well-known, I think, passage in the memoirs of Ber Birkenthal of Bolochow (1723-1805), a person most famed bec...

As an inveterate fan of the English language, I love spotting English - the more broken or misspelled the better - in books written in othe...

I am pleased and excited to present this guest post by Prof. Leiman. While I don't think he needs an introduction in this venue, and ...

Here's an account of a book burning in  Dobromil  in the American Israelite (March 2, 1860), taken from Hamaggid  (Jan. 5, 1860/10 Tev...

Where in rabbinic literature does the word "response" as in "responsum" occur? (And, it seems to me, ever so slightly, a...

From the  Voice of Jacob December 23, 1841.

In early 1924 Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel published a piece called Signifigance of Yeshiva in America , meant to appear, I am sure, in as many m...

Here's the story of a Dutch Jew named Levi and his cousin, a Jewish servant girl named Katrina, who converted to Christianity in or arou...

Here's a rather interesting 'missed connection' type of ad from 1869 in the New York Herald .

Jewish Chronicle Nov. 12, 1847.

One more. This little piece, which is from the Jewish Chronicle via the JTA newswire, states that a man in Warsaw tried to divorce his wi...

This is Newark's Jewish Chronicle 's account of a pogrom in Radin in 1922, and how it personally affected the Chofetz Chaim, who was...

Here's a couple of interesting excerpts from the Jewish Chronicle - of Newark, New Jersey - from Nov. 16, 1928. The article was called ...

Don't worry!

Here's a nice little interesting pamphlet published in Frankfurt AM in May 1805, publicizing the cherem on a man called Lemle Geiger...

Are you still thinking about Kippur? I forget to post Abraham Geiger's Kol Nidrei . Does anyone with a nice set of pipes (or even a no...

Here is a translation of the 1841 rabbinical contract given by the community of Ujhely, Hungary to Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum , (1808-188...

Here's an interesting page from this calendar tool, printed in Leiden in 1756, for use in calculating the molad for kiddush ha-chodes...

Okay, maybe there was no bar. From Fraser's Magazine . It is necessary to read about Saint Ursula .