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Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This…
Visiting card with photograph of Albert Einstein shoveling snow in Montréal (Québec). 1929. Montréal Portraits Men. From the Leo Baeck Institute’s Albert Einstein Collection.
Molly Picon
by Anna Khomina, Research and Special Projects Intern, Center for Jewish History
In 1903, at five years old, Molly Picon (1898-1992) was on her way to a Philadelphia theater for a contest. On the trolley car, a drunken passenger challenged her to perform her act on the spot, and she complied, adding on an imitation of the drunk at the end,…