Historicus Hasidicus

A YouTuber reviewing a pizza shop in Westcliff-on-Sea meets a local Jew...

@dovy365 @nypost Surprised they haven't removed the words yet

@nypost @hasidicus look at the image on the right. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/how-hebrew-cam…

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At a matzah bakery in Chicago, 1933.

A 1904 photograph of the fire department in Woodbine, NJ, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1891.

Job openings in 1866 New York

A young Fiorello LaGuardia at his desk on Ellis Island. From 1907 to 1910, he worked as an interpreter certified for Yiddish, Italian, German, and Croatian.

@ShlomoYaffe @RabbiKolakowski Any pictures of him?

@hasidicus @RabbiKolakowski My Zayde served in that war...

An 1914 English/Yiddish poster urging Jews to enlist in the British Army. Approximately 50,000 Jews ended up serving in WWI, representing roughly 17% of the British Jewish population at the time.

*double take*

"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.

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Footage of Warsaw's Jewish Quarter captured by American reporter W. H. Durbourough, who filmed the German occupation of the city in 1915.

א שווערע רשב"א

@eddyportnoy As well as his personal library, papers, and manuscripts!

@hasidicus Additionally, Einstein's will stipulated that the profits from his royalties and copyrights would all go to Hebrew University.

A check with a $10 donation to The American Friends of the Hebrew University, signed by Abert Einstein in 1955

@jewishhistoryst Where can I find it?

@hasidicus Yes

Video footage captures Reb Eliezer Silver meeting with Vice President Henry A. Wallace at the Rabbis' March on October 6, 1943. Afterwards, in the footage, he stands behind Rabbi Wolf Gold as Rabbi Gold issues the plea from the rabbis to save Jews from the Holocaust.

British officers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the winter of 1921.

@Adderabbi @LipaSchmeltzer You can update the article with the new "I Don't Need Your Bekitche" song

This might be the first academic article to cite @LipaSchmeltzer

Louis Sholim, a German Jewish immigrant, joined the Union Army during the Civil War despite being past his prime. This discharge record shows him released just a few months later because of “disability.” His diagnosis: “old age.” He was 61 years old, according to the record.