https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/kay-kaufman-shelemay
Kay Kaufman Shelemay | Posen Library
A short biography of Kay Kaufman Shelemay (b. 1948) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/conjugal-duties
Conjugal Duties | Posen Library
Students [of Torah] may depart for Torah study without permission [from their wives] for thirty days. Laborers—for one week. The conjugal duty mentioned in the...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/our-team
Our Team | Posen Library
Meet the Posen Library team and advisers behind the curated anthology for Jewish culture and civilization!
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/lost-translation-life-new-language
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language | Posen Library
It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/two-voyages-gulliver
The Two Voyages of Gulliver | Posen Library
This rewriting of Jonathan Swift’s novel produced by a well-known Sephardic journalist, Alexandre Benghiat, first appeared in Izmir, Turkey in serialized form...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/birth-palestinian-refugee-problem-1947-1949
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 | Posen Library
[Introduction] In the course of 1948 and the first half of 1949, a number of processes definitively changed the physical and demographic face of Palestine....
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Orpah as Mother of Giants | Posen Library
The book of Ruth contrasts the behavior of Ruth and Orpah, Naomi’s two daughters-in-law. When Naomi’s sons die, their Moabite wives are left widowed and...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/obligations-sharecropper
The Obligations of a Sharecropper | Posen Library
m. Bava Metsi‘a 9:1 If one leased a field from his fellow and the custom of the place was to cut the crops, he must cut them; if the custom was to uproot them,...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/memoirs-my-people-through-thousand-years
Memoirs of My People through a Thousand Years | Posen Library
This anthology features excerpts from Jewish diaries and memoirs spanning the eleventh to the twentieth centuries across Europe.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/elijah-ben-solomon-gaon-vilna
Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna | Posen Library
A short biography of Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna (1720–1797) with selected works.
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Batenosh in the Genesis Apocryphon | Posen Library
Genesis 4 and 5 preserve two genealogies that likely reflect two different traditions that the text attempts to harmonize. While Genesis 4 recounts that Lamech...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/transmitting-and-preserving-teaching
Transmitting and Preserving the Teaching | Posen Library
9Moses wrote down this Teaching and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who carried the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. 10And...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/shoshana-persits
Shoshana Persits | Posen Library
A short biography of Shoshana Persits (ca. 1893–1969) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/map-land-israel
Map of the Land of Israel | Posen Library
This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/portrait-benjamin-s-judah
Portrait of Benjamin S. Judah | Posen Library
Benjamin S. Judah (1761–1831) was an influential businessman in New York City and Philadelphia who built his wealth on shipping contracts to and from the West...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/local-notes
Local Notes | Posen Library
The Moshava of Pardes-Hannah is the place I come from, but since I left it, my eyes have been turned away from it, as if I couldn’t look at it. Until I went to...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/cains-prayer
Cain’s Prayer | Posen Library
After killing his brother, Abel, and being cursed by God to wander the earth, Cain says that his punishment is too great to bear and that anyone who finds him...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/guide/life-writing-biography-autobiography-and-ego-documents
Life Writing: Biography, Autobiography, and Ego Documents | Posen Library
The famous and the obscure, women and men, in epitaphs and private letters, ethical wills, cookbooks, and religious reflections, all reflect aspects of Jewish...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/arab-woman-accused-licentiousness
An Arab Woman Accused of Licentiousness | Posen Library
Rabbah bar Bar Ḥanah said: One time I was walking behind R. Ukva. I saw an Arab woman who was sitting, casting her spindle, and spinning a red [thread]...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/guide/language-postwar-jewish-culture
Language in Postwar Jewish Culture | Posen Library
Language shifts transformed Jewish culture in the postwar period, as Yiddish declined and Hebrew and English gained prominence.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/hall-remembrance-yad-vashem
Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem | Posen Library
The Hall of Remembrance is the main site for memorial ceremonies in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Built of basalt and concrete, it offers a somber contrast with the...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/guide/what-sifre-deuteronomy
What Is Sifre Deuteronomy? | Posen Library
Learn about the midrashic collection Sifre Deuteronomy (Sifre Devarim) and read key passages.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/yerushalmi-nedarim
Yerushalmi Nedarim | Posen Library
Just as one should not seek out opportunities for martyrdom, an amoraic teaching in y. Nedarim 9:1, 41b maintains that one should not seek out opportunities to...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/greek-education-family-patriarch
Greek Education in the Family of the Patriarch | Posen Library
To the Patriarch Your son came with ability to learn; indeed, through the rhetorical power of Argeus1 he had something…
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/stained-glass-window-central-synagogue-portland-street-london
Stained-Glass Window, Central Synagogue, Portland Street, London | Posen Library
When the Central Synagogue was built on the site of London’s first Ashkenazic synagogue, which had been destroyed by bombing in World War II, David Hillman was...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/reflections-jewish-question
Reflections on the Jewish Question | Posen Library
In describing the psychology of what he calls the “inauthentic Jew” among Gentiles, Sartre does not distinguish between the psychology of what I call the...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/wine-floor-mosaic-beth-shean
Wine Floor Mosaic, Beth Shean | Posen Library
This floor mosaic from a synagogue in Beth Shean depicts men pressing grapes to make wine. Wine was drunk regularly, as it was safer than water. It was also...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/prayer-0
A Prayer | Posen Library
I pray Thee O Lord From all my heart, O Lord! I pray to Thee. With fervor and zeal, For the sufferings of the humiliated, For the uncertainty of those who...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/morris-jacob-raphall
Morris Jacob Raphall | Posen Library
A short biography of Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/moses-alsheikh
Moses Alsheikh | Posen Library
A short biography of Moses Alsheikh (ca. 1520–1593) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/confusion-and-war
Confusion and War | Posen Library
This passage from 2 Baruch contains a classic statement of the idea that the messianic kingdom will be ushered in by a period of unprecedented confusion, war,...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/saga-marrano
The Saga of the Marrano | Posen Library
This is the moment Francisco has been waiting for. Day after day and week after week he has imagined the court’s questions, turned them over in his mind, and...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/tobits-prayer-confession
Tobit’s Prayer of Confession | Posen Library
One of the many prayers in the book of Tobit occurs after an argument between Tobit and his wife, Anna. Having been blinded when a bird’s droppings fell on his...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/asterix-le-gaulois-no-1-cover
Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover | Posen Library
Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/boundaries-land-promised-abraham
Boundaries of the Land Promised to Abraham | Posen Library
This excerpt from the Genesis Apocryphon is an expansion of Genesis 13:14–18, wherein God tells Abraham (at this point named Abram) to walk through the...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/martyrdom-r-haninah-ben-teradyon
The Martyrdom of R. Ḥaninah ben Teradyon | Posen Library
The martyrdom of R. Ḥaninah ben Teradyon and his family, at the time of the Bar Kokhba rebellion, is presented as a model of piety and defiance of imperial...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/ezekiel-gabay
Ezekiel Gabay | Posen Library
A short biography of Ezekiel Gabay (1825–1898) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/unequal-treatment-under-law
Unequal Treatment under the Law | Posen Library
This text from the Palestinian Talmud expresses ambivalence about the inequity inherent in the law of theft as it applies to Noahides and Jews.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/portuguese-and-ashkenazic-synagogues-amsterdam
Portuguese and Ashkenazic Synagogues in Amsterdam | Posen Library
In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/portrait-rahel-levin-varnhagen
Portrait of Rahel Levin Varnhagen | Posen Library
The influence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) on German culture owed much to the salon society of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/first-pioneers
The First Pioneers | Posen Library
Alpersohn’s narrative about the early days of Colonia Mauricio blames the Jewish Colonization Association’s local administrators for the colonists’ suffering.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/avkat-rokhel-powder-merchant
Avkat rokhel (Powder of the Merchant) | Posen Library
Hear, ye mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth [see Micah 6:2] the lament of my beloved for his vineyard. My beloved...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/song-songs-rabbah
Song of Songs Rabbah | Posen Library
The exegetical midrash of Song of Songs Rabbah domesticates the highly erotic biblical Song of Songs by interpreting it as an expression of the deep mutual...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/ruth-rabbah
Ruth Rabbah | Posen Library
A homiletic midrash compiled from earlier materials between the seventh and ninth centuries CE, Ruth Rabbah provides a running commentary on all but two verses...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/your-eyebrow-dear-charm
Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm | Posen Library
Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm that draws to you life’s greatest joys. Rounded like a bow, that brow, or like a moon in half eclipse. Your eye, beside it,...
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Niggun of Four Stanzas | Posen Library
A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/statue-apollo
Before the Statue of Apollo | Posen Library
To thee I come, O long-abandoned god Of early moons and unremembered days, To thee whose reign was in a greener world Among a race of men divine with youth,...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/am-kurfurstendamm
Am Kurfürstendamm | Posen Library
This rainy streetscape exemplifies the style and subject matter for which Lesser Ury is best known. The Kurfürstendamm is one of Berlin’s most storied...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/crisis-jewish-colonization-argentina
The Crisis of Jewish Colonization in Argentina | Posen Library
Published after his visit to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina in 1908, Chasanowitch’s report is a scathing critique of the...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/ketubah-venice
Ketubah (Venice) | Posen Library
This Venetian ketubah (marriage contract) from 1707 marks the wedding of Solomon, son of Isaac Franco de Almeida, to Brancha, daughter of David Fernandes Dias....
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/amina
Amīnā | Posen Library
A short biography of Amīnā (1672/3–after 1732) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/author/john-chrysostom
John Chrysostom | Posen Library
A short biography of John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407) with selected works.
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/revolutionary-chapters
Revolutionary Chapters | Posen Library
I The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/greek-way-life
The Greek Way of Life | Posen Library
1 Maccabees 1:10–15 10From them [the successors of Alexander the Great] came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus; he had been a...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/commentary-genesis
Commentary: On Genesis | Posen Library
It is thought that Samuel ben Ḥofni Ga’on wrote Judeo-Arabic commentaries on the second half of Genesis, all of Numbers, and the first half of Deuteronomy....
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/braendel
Braendel | Posen Library
IX [ . . . ] Braendel dragged the poor woman into the smoky room, which stank of sweat, beer, and wine, and cried out in a loud voice, “Aren’t you ashamed, you...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/o-my-creator-entering-synagogue
O my creator!: On Entering the Synagogue | Posen Library
O my creator! Pay heed to the servant that knocks at your doors; open up for him the entrance to the lintel of your dwelling place. As he lifts up his eyes to...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/jewish-gauchos
The Jewish Gauchos | Posen Library
This collection of short vignettes about life in the Jewish agricultural colonies was published for Argentina’s independence centennial. It presents their...
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https://www.posenlibrary.com/entry/birth-amulet-ukraine
Birth Amulet (Ukraine) | Posen Library
This impressive cut-paper birth amulet is in the form of the double eagle, the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy (and pre-partition Poland) and thus a popular...
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https://wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication/312737/edition/257867
Amtliches Schul-Blatt für die Provinz Posen 1908.06.20 Jg.41 Nr12 - Wielkopolska Digital Library
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