Yiddish & Ashkenazi Jewish culture

From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography

Blessings for a good week, a safe and peaceful week, and may all the plans of our enemies fail.

From “Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: A Remembrance” (1922), a set of 30 lithographs by the Jewish artist Issachar Ber Ryback. In the series Ryback depicts scenes from his home village in Ukraine before it was destroyed in the pogroms following WW1. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shtetl-my-destroyed-home-a-remembrance-1922

The comprehensive Yiddish/English dictionary suggests “dibek” (dibuk) as a modern Yiddish word for a computer virus

The Kabbalist by Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921). Jewish Museum, Manhattan.

Watercolour, ballpoint pen, pencil

The Song of Songs / שיר השירים, Illustrated by Zeev Raban (1890 - 1970). Hebrew and English. Bound in Bezalel leather cover with a copper relief of queen of Sheba. Published by Shulammite, circa 1950. 30 pages. Approximately 24 x 34 cm. x

Praying Jews. By Mojżesz (Moshe) Ryniecki (1881-1943). Source.

"I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof." – Faye Schulman.

Jewish "Pinkas" illustration from Kopechinets, Volhynia (Ukraine), 1873

A rabbi wearing tefillin, a leather box containing torah verses worn when praying, Eastern Europe, ca. 1880

Quote by: every Islamist hate group on the planet against jews

The same is true of antizionist Jews.

thinking about this (made in russia) hebrew pocketwatch my grandmother gave me a few years ago… she couldn’t remember how she acquired it.

I got this one from the Jewish community in Prague!