The choir on stage at YIVO, March 24, 2019. L-R: Naomi Seidman, Michelle Miller, Roni Mazal, Dainy Bernstein, Rivky Grossman,…
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…
What can a few simple report cards tell us about Bais Yaakov schools? A lot, actually. One of the purposes…
The book that helped inspire this website: Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of…
Combing through archives can be a tedious enterprise. Take the Joint Distribution Committee Archive. It’s a beautiful and useful resource,…