Click on the images above to see enlarged versions for easier viewing/reading. At the Sewing Machine (from Songs of the Ghetto) Poem by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) with translation from Yiddish by Berthold Feiwel (1875-1937). Illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). Berlin, Benjamin Harz Verlag ca. 1902. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1996.023). Gift of Michael Cohn. – A haunting image from the famed and…
Die Haggadah des Kindes. (Click on title to view digitized version.) Leo Baeck Institute. Dayenu: A few Passover Haggadot would have been enough…really?by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History As we prepare for the ritual Seder this evening, I started to reflect on the variations of Passover Haggadot and the vast number of them that we have…
Image: For the Child Who is Unable to Inquire, Thou Shalt Explain the Whole Story of Passover (Seder plate). Harriete Estel Berman. Steel, tin, plexiglas, sterling silver, brass. Yeshiva University Museum. – A Newborn Girl at Passoverby Nan Cohen Consider one apricot in a basket of them.It is very much like all the other apricots–an individual already, skin and seed. Now think of this…
From the partners’ collections: Confirmation (Bar Mitzvah) invitation Creator: James Spencer & Co.Object Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A. Date: January 14, 1922Medium: paper: printed, embossedPersistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=6509Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumCall Number: 2002.061Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.