A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish ... they were free to read secular literature in ...

Meiner lieben guten Marta dem 22t November 91. Hugo. Brandeis librarian Lou Hartman found this handwritten inscription, translated from German as “To my dear good Marta on the 22nd of November [18]91 ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

“Among the Jews of German or partly German origin in New York during the first quarter of the nineteenth century two names stand out,” Rabbi Goldstein declared. “One is that of Sampson ...