The Moment
When Rav Hirsch was niftar in Frankfurt on December 31, 1888, it ended a glorious era for Ashkenaz Jewry
For the Record
Harvard University’s history of anti-Semitism goes back at least as far as the 1930s
For the Record
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



















