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In 1614, one thousand three hundred eighty Jews – the entire Jewish community of Frankfurt, including its rav, Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, author of the Shlah (Shnei Luchos HaBris) – were […]
In 1614, one thousand three hundred eighty Jews – the entire Jewish community of Frankfurt, including its rav, Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, author of the Shlah (Shnei Luchos HaBris) – were […]
As you open your machzor this Rosh Hashanah, something you will probably not expect to find is a Jewish pope. But if you read carefully, that’s exactly what you’ll see. […]
Exiled after the destruction of the first Beis Hamikdash, a Jewish community seeks guidance “The Passover Letter” is the name given by scholars to a papyrus scroll discovered over a […]
An Episode in Metz, France Two Hundred Years Ago During the period of the Tosafists, Metz boasted a significant Jewish community. Rabbi Eliezer ben Shemuel, a disciple of Rabbenu Tam […]
Every year with the approach of Passover new Haggadah editions make their appearance. In recent years the Diskin Orphan Home of Israel — the oldest charitable institution of the Holy […]
Historical sources attest to the presence of Jews in Hanover’s Altstadt (old city) in 1292. Suffering during the Black Death persecutions as well as expulsion were the lot of the […]
Though only few copies of the Venice Haggadah of 1609 are extant, many a reader may have a feeling that he had already seen quite a number of its pictures; […]
Rabbi Elazar Hurvitz, a member of the faculty of Yeshiva University, is the editor of excellent editions of works by Rishonim. He is also a very diligent student of the […]
Jews were permitted to settle in Wandsbek towards the end of the 16th century. In the middle of the 17th century a number of Jews, fugitives from the Chmielnicki massacres […]
This Haggadah was written in 1771 by the Torah scribe Netanel, the son of Aaron Segal (סג”ל), about whom we have no further information. Several entries on two pages preceding […]