Harvard University’s history of anti-Semitism goes back at least as far as the 1930s
Mattisyahu Strashun (1817–1885) personified the intellectual environment of 19th-century Vilna, the “Jerusalem of Lithuania” Title: The Library Legacy of Vilna Location: Vilna Document: Strashun Library Inventory List Time: Unknown Approximately three million books lay in the Offenbach Archival Depot by late 1945. Located just outside Frankfurt in the American occupation zone of postwar Germany, the
“It’s Shabbos Chanukah,” she responded. “And the Rabbiner will speak about the significance of this day” Title: An Angel in the Flesch Location: Vienna, Austria Document: PR Material from Bais Yaakov Office in Vienna Time: Chanukah 1914 ON 9 Av 1914, the Great War broke out, and not long after that, we were forced
Rav Sholom Schwadron’s reputation as a maggid stemmed from his natural public speaking talents Title: The Voice of the Maggid Location: Jerusalem, Israel Document: Yahrtzeit Sign Time: November 1954 One Friday night in 1952, a brilliant 40-year-old talmid chacham named Rav Sholom Schwadron made his way from his modest two-room home in Jerusalem’s Shaarei Chesed neighborhood
Rav Isser Zalman’s legacy of Torah aristocracy, communal leadership, along with his boundless kindness for others, remains with us until this very day Location: Jerusalem, Israel Document: Partial list of Eitz Chaim students Time: 1942 From his formative years in Volozhin and Slabodka through his decades of leadership in Slutzk, to his commanding presence in
In 1806 Napoleon called for an assembly of Jewish leaders to form what he referred to as a “Sanhedrin”
