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Let me tell you the story of a book. Akedat Yitzhak was written by Isaac ben Moses Arama, who died in 1494. He lived in various places in Spain until the Jews were expelled in 1492, at which point he fled to Naples.
There are more questions than answers here, but the key here is that all books tell stories. You just have to know how to look! /End
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Let me tell you the story of a book. Akedat Yitzhak was written by Isaac ben Moses Arama, who died in 1494. He lived in various places in Spain until the Jews were expelled in 1492, at which point he fled to Naples.
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17th century version of "Anyone coming from Amsterdam to Suriname who could bring a bunch of things (including kosher meat)?"
Boodschappenlijst verstuurd door Samuel Nassy in #Suriname aan zijn zwager Abraham Drago in Amsterdam, 1672.
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📮 Pink postal coupons – for Holocaust survivors often the only way to send signs of life and ask who survived. Found in Swedish archives. 🕯️Got Yiddish docs from Sweden? Email to:
📩 [email protected] Thanks! 🌹
🌐 yiddish-archive-sweden.carrd…
#Yiddish #Archive
New post - lots of acquisitions, from the very old to the very new: blogs.library.columbia.edu/j…
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Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment.
Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters?
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ex libris for Jaromir Mrázek by Jaroslav Dobrovolský, circa 1930.
A Czech artist, teacher, and antifascist murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942, he was known for ex libris plates, many of which involved scenes of nature.
#trees #forests #Czech #Czechoslovakia
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ALT black and white woodcut a mountain slope dotted with coniferous trees extends downward from right to left at left, a human figure sits beneath one of the trees, chin on hand, contemplating the beauty of nature at bottom in angular stylized letters: EX LIBRIS * JAROSLAV MRA'ZEK signed by the artist--JD--in the lower right of the block
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The bravery of this generation of Soviet Jews is almost impossible for us to fully grasp, and they're now dying out nitter.cf/AlexRif3/status/211208…
נפטר בוריס קוצ’ובייבסקי ז״ל.
רוב הישראלים לא מכירים את השם הזה. כולנו חייבים לו.
אביו של בוריס נרצח בבאבי יאר, ערב יום כיפורים 1941. יחד עם עוד 33,771 יהודי קייב.
ב-1968, בטקס זיכרון רשמי באתר הטבח בברית המועצות, אף אחד לא אמר את המילה ״יהודים״. בוריס, מהנדס רדיו בן שלושים, עלה לבמה בלי שהזמינו אותו. הוא אמר: הקורבנות היו יהודים. אי אפשר למחוק להם את הזהות.
אחר כך כתב מכתב גלוי לברז’נייב. ״אני יהודי. אני רוצה לחיות בישראל״. ככה, בפשטות. בברית המועצות.
פחות משבוע אחרי זה, הק.ג.ב. לקח אותו לבית חולים לחולי נפש. אחר כך משפט, ושלוש שנים במחנה עבודה.
הפנים שלו הופיעו על כרזות וסיכות בארצות הברית. הוא היה הפנים הראשונות של המאבק לשחרור יהודי ברית המועצות. בזכותו ובזכות אחרים כמוהו, הדלת נפתחה. עשרים שנה אחרי, עברנו בה מיליון איש. גם אני.
ב-1972 הוא עלה לישראל. עבד בתדיראן, גידל שלושה ילדים, חי בירושלים. בשקט. בלי להתהדר.
תודה, בוריס. על האומץ. על הדלת.
הלוויה תתקיים היום (שני) בשעה 14:00 בבית העלמין ירקון. המשפחה מבקשת שתבואו ללוות אותו בדרכו האחרונה. הוא ראוי לזה. יהי זכרו ברוך.
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A techinah for a woman to say at Shabbos candle lighting "special for America", praying to not have to break Shabbos in order to survive.
"...send us our livelihood [...] such that we needn't, God forbid... turn Shabbos into a weekday in order to make a living"
I blame @eddyportnoy for the upcoming thread. Early 20th century Jewish book illustration is literally a lost art of breathtaking scope and variety. Here goes:
And while we're on the topic of Szyk, I'll just drop this paragraph from his Canterbury Tales. I'm sure it was a coincidence that this artistic fighter of antisemitism did not include The Prioress.
