December 2021

One good read begets another is the bookworm’s version of שכר מצוה מצוה (The reward of performing a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself). In this case, historian Jonathan Krasner starts his recent article on day school archives in HaYidion with a reference to Laura Arnold Leibman’s book The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in …

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One of my occasional hobbies is to glance at auction catalogs of Jewish books. In them, I learn about fascinating works that I never heard of, as well as editions of famous tomes that are particularly rare, early, and valuable. Reading the descriptions of the works and their provenance provides its own sort of education. …

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