Among my favorite Bais Yaakov finds in the YIVO archive, and one I discovered almost at the very start of…
The participants of a 1931 tour of Poland undertaken by Agudath Israel and Keren HaTorah. During the interwar period, Bais…
There’s something a little ambivalent and paradoxical about the process of seeing a book you’ve worked on for years finally…
On February 22, 1933, the Yiddish daily Hayntige nayes published a news report with the eye-catching title: “The Agudah Is…
The great scholar and historian Yosef Hayyim Yerushalmi once wrote: History is the faith of fallen Jews. But what of…
In 1934, the Agudah secured the right to distribute a share of certificates for immigration to Palestine, from Zionist organizations…
Combing through archives can be a tedious enterprise. Take the Joint Distribution Committee Archive. It’s a beautiful and useful resource,…
Bais Yaakov girls in Kolbuszowa performing in a Purim play. Bais Yaakov students perform in a play called ‘Joseph and…