Historicus Hasidicus

Jewish History, Torah, Books, Yiddish, Etymology, Puns, and more

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A YouTuber reviewing a pizza shop in Westcliff-on-Sea meets a local Jew...

[S.D. Homnick @querynotfound]

Going to start referring more regularly to negel vasser as "exorcising evil" (1966)

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An 1868 illustration titled "Zhidovskaia karchma" (Jewish tavern).

We now know where the Machanayim artist got his inspiration from.

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A 1930s photograph of the Hotel Fast near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The swastikas are there because the building was home to the German Consulate during the British Mandate.

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"England has been all she could be to Jews, Jews will be all they can be to England."

Banner outside the Jewish Chronicle office in London encourages Jews to enlist in the British Army, 1914. Around 50,000 British Jews ended up serving in WWI.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

HUC, the reform rabbinical school, ordained its last class of 4 students.

Its first class was also 4 students.

End of an era for American Judaism.

The 1883 ordination ceremony became known as the “trayfe banquet.”

A few walked out—starting JTS and the Conservative Movement.

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@Historycourses 2.3 acres property in Miami going for $300 million.

https://t.co/eyXzDXpSiD

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@avadagevust I can't DM

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holy smokes 👀

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This looks awesome. And you can filter by time period and location!

[Michelle Margolis @hchesner]

.@JTSLibrary has put together a beautiful exhibition featuring some of the treasures of their incredible collection. Worth taking a look!
https://t.co/joEXjqkm2I

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What's crazy about the 1840 Damascus Affair is that Father Thomas' tombstone still claims that the Jews murdered him.

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@ibay770 His biography by Peter Gay

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According to his biographer, Sigmund Freud was forced to say הרי את מקודשת לי when he married his wife in 1886.

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@ibay770 I think American Israelite, not sure

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Job openings in 1866 New York

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@lost_skeptic Basically

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Probably the first time there were shtreimlech in the Oval Office

[Hasidic @hasidic_1]

אידישע עסקנים מיט פרעזידענט טראמפ היינט אינעם אוועל אפיס

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@dovy365 @nypost Surprised they haven't removed the words yet

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At a matzah bakery in Chicago, 1933.

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A 1904 photograph of the fire department in Woodbine, NJ, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1891.