Photo of the day: Silver circumcision knife, Italy (ca. 1620). Hebrew inscription: “My covenant was with him for life…” Genesis 17.11; Deuteronomy 30.12; Genesis 17.12.
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Photo of the day: Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise (1920). From American Jewish Historical Society.
In memory of the Beilis Trial: “Beilis Not Guilty, Jews Guilty” (circa 1913). From YIVO Collections.
The dramatic postcard above is a commentary on the notorious 1911 Beilis Trial, which escalated the already rampant anti-Semitic sentiment in tsarist Russia. In a case strikingly similar to the that of the Trial of Trent almost 400 years earlier, it revolved around blood libel.
Menahem…
Photo of the day: Henrietta Szold at home, Jerusalem (circa 1922). From the Hadassah Archives, housed at American Jewish Historical Society.
For more archival photographs, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.