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Author: Naomi Seidman

A Letter from Bais Yaakov Teachers in Bergen Belsen

November 30, 2019 Naomi Seidman

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the rare artifacts that survive from the post-war period in Europe. One of the…

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Bais Yaakov in the DP Camps

November 16, 2019 Naomi Seidman

An Object: Among the few items my parents brought with them from Europe when they emigrated to America is a…

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Bais Yaakov, the Talmud, and Me

November 9, 2019 Naomi Seidman

“Whatever strategic impulses may have led Schenirer to avoid discussing what Rabbi Eliezer may have thought of her enterprise, she helped construct an alternative value system that shaped my own attitude to the Jewish library…”

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Mechitzas and Movies: Female Culture in a Gender-Segregated Community

October 26, 2019 Naomi Seidman

“But what if the effect is not entirely negative?

What if gender segregation was also an engine for spiritual energy and community cohesiveness for girls, as it seems to often be for boys and men?”

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Why Didn’t Sarah Schenirer Want Her Photo Published?

September 15, 2019 Naomi Seidman

“We now have a photo of Sarah Schenirer, one she would have fought to keep away from prying eyes. What are the ethics of showing it?”

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Singing the Bais Yaakov Song on a Lakewood Farm

September 7, 2019 Naomi Seidman

It was no surprise that the intellectuals my father described, who inhabited the margins on the Agudah, are also the ones most likely to show up in the history of Bais Yaakov.

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When Bais Yaakov Girls Commissioned a Sefer Torah

August 31, 2019 Naomi Seidman

“…I was pretty surprised to read a report in a 1933 issue of the Bais Yaakov Journal about a girls’ camp commissioning a Torah scroll.”

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A Songbook Come Alive

June 2, 2019 Naomi Seidman

Among my favorite Bais Yaakov finds in the YIVO archive, and one I discovered almost at the very start of…

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Tracing the Map of Agudah, on a Motorcycle

May 13, 2019 Naomi Seidman

The participants of a 1931 tour of Poland undertaken by Agudath Israel and Keren HaTorah. During the interwar period, Bais…

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When a Book Is Not Really Done

May 4, 2019 Naomi Seidman

There’s something a little ambivalent and paradoxical about the process of seeing a book you’ve worked on for years finally…

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