Jewish Communal Workers, Preacher’s Kid Syndrome, and Sefer Shmuel
…to accuse parents of failing to properly raise their children. If we agree not to automatically label friends and neighbors as bad parents based on how their child(ren) turned out,…
Le-Tacen Olam (לתכן עולם): Establishing the Correct Text in Aleinu
…erroneously printed לתקן. [10] See their Fragments from the Cairo Genizah in the Freer Collection, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927, plate XLIII (opposite p. 194). The fragment is labeled…
Lekah Tov – What’s in a Name?
…is a subject of considerable interest, varying as it does from the more common manner of labelling comparable works. Book titles generally reflect a book’s subject matter. In contrast, however,…
Birds’ Heads, Romaine Lettuce, and the Art of Reading a Haggadah
…much scholarship. Medieval Jewish and Christian artists often employed similar pictorial conventions; when similarities are observed, scholars have typically identified the Christian source, labeled the Jewish version as dependent, and…
The Illusory Portrait of R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller: Deceptive Art and Jewish Images in Vienna
…not a recognized artist; instead, it was a commercial reproduction company in Vienna that commonly attached its labels to the works. Its full name is “Paul Krüger Atelier für Porträtmalerei…
The Rabbi, the Rebbe, and the Messiah
…I[11], and Shukar Kuchayil II[12], and more recently Yisrael Dov Odesser[13], all being labeled one way or another as the Messiah[14]. Despite the characterization of these individuals as the Messiah,…
