Yiddish cartoon from NYC 100 years ago
Karikatūrah
Mipaām ⚫ קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם
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Today’s cartoon in Yiddish first appeared 1916 in דיא וואַרהייט. This newspaper and others are made available online by the
National Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press – עיתונות יהודית היסטורית. Microfilmed and…
By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern
Josh
Daniels is writing a two-part series of blog posts on the intellectual foundations
of Reform Judaism. See his first post here.
Once Reform
Judaism began to spread to America, it encountered a very different environment
than the one it came from back in Germany.
Politically, the American Constitution…
By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern
Growing up in a secular household,
I had only a loose connection to the religion of Judaism. I attended Hebrew school twice a week for
five years, and studied eight months independently for my bar mitzvah. I attended High Holiday services throughout
my high school years, and ended up all but renounced my religious identity…
By Andrey Filimonov, Archival Services Manager at
the Center for Jewish History
Screenshots from “Civil Disobedience—Demonstration and Clergy Arrest
at Soviet Consulate, November 18, 1985.” Original archival material found in
the Records
of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue
and Renewal, I-505; box 100;…