shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Practical Kabbalah manuscript made in Morocco in about 1925 by Yitzhak Biton of Marrakesh cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?... 141
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026tiny Gold Chains For Old Men Magazine for my daughter's Gravity Falls Lego set up 030
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Paper amulet made in Ukraine in about 1900 featuring the double headed eagle cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?... 181
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Amulet printed in Lviv in 1903, featuring Sanoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof In the bottom left corner it says it was written by Israel Ben Sarah in 1743 cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?... 1110
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Hello, just a note to say that I'm alive, just not really using social media much these days. I'm 24 weeks pregnant with twins and it's been kind of a difficult pregnancy so just been trying to relax and avoid stress. Hope you're all doing well! 3120
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 22/09/2023East Side grandmothers buying candles for Yom Kippur Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 070
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Holiday shopping in Warsaw, Poland Published in Forverts on September 23, 1928 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 030
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Women workers published in Forverts on November 25, 1928, including farmers in Japan and Jerusalem, taxi drivers in Philadelphia, a coal digger in England, concrete worker, steam shovel operator, auto mechanic, blacksmith, and worker at a bag and barrel plant in Boston www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 050
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Two Jewish working women, Mary Jacobson and Florence Guttenberg hitchhiked from New York to Los Angeles and back Published in Forverts on November 25, 1928 080
Reposted by shulmanSonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 19/09/2023Arbeter froyen, laydnde froyen… 🎶 yiddishsongs.org/arbeter-froy... 141
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Women workers published in Forverts on September 13, 1936, including construction workers, a linewoman, an icewoman, a coal miner, longshorewomen, a horse shoer, an electric welder, a blacksmith, and a sign painter www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 0101
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Looking for a Customer - His trade is to intone 'El Moleh Rachmim' (prayer for the dead) for relatives who come visiting the graves of their near ones in Warsaw (on the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) Published in Forverts on September 23, 1923 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 010
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 18/09/2023Aaron Goodelman illustration of Days of Awe Published in Leyenbikher far der Idisher Shul by Israel Steinbaum (NY, 1924) www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/... 000
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 17/09/2023The burlesque theater will be open all day today (Monday, January 21, 1918), but will be closed tomorrow by order of the fuel administration. Published in Forverts on January 21, 1918 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 152
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 17/09/2023Yiddish advertisement for a burlesque show Published in Forverts on February 9, 1918 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 110
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 17/09/2023Advertisements for Gayety, The Home of Burlesque, a theatre to take your sister, mother, or sweetheart to Published in Forverts September, 1917 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 060
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Tashlikh in New York Published in Forverts on September 12, 1937 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 131
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Tashlikh in New York Published in Forverts on September 20, 1936 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 021
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Rosh Hashanah at the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Los Angeles in 1933 Published in Forverts on September 9, 1934 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 062
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 16/09/2023Tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge Published in Forverts on October 9, 1929 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 054
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Ethiopian Jews in New York celebrating Rosh Hashanah in 1937 Published in Forverts on September 11, 1937 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 012
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Has anyone been able to post images today in the last few hours? 110
Reposted by shulmanSonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Yiddish Vinkel makes such beautiful Ukrainian Yiddish swag (including the wrapping). Check out her online store and send some sweetness to the Yiddishists in your life. @ingeveb.bsky.social linktr.ee/yiddishvinkl 052
Reposted by shulmanAdne Sadeh @adnesadeh.bsky.social · 15/09/2023Stargazers predicted that Rabbi Akiva's daughter would be bitten by a snake on her wedding day. The sage faced a cruel question: What to do? The Talmud tells of his choice, and how his daughter ultimately saved herself, unlike a certain Sleeping Beauty… blog.nli.org.il/en/charity/blog.nli.org.il“And Charity Will Save From Death”: How Rabbi Akiva’s Daughter Saved Her Own LifeThe stargazers predicted that Rabbi Akiva's daughter would be bitten by a poisonous snake on her wedding day. The great sage now faced a cruel question: How to contend with such a prophecy? The Talmud... 142
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Rosh Hashanah in New York Left: sounding the shofar in an East Side synagogue Right: tashlikh on the Williamsburg Bridge Photographed in September, 1930 Published in Forverts September 13, 1931 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 071
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 14/09/2023In honor of the New Year: A baker's apprentice in Kalisz, Poland making challot 'with birds' (a round, twisted holiday bread) which he says are to ensure a 'birdlike year' (a year without misfortune) Photographed September, 1930 Published in Forverts September 20, 1931 www.nli.org.il/en/newspaper... 154
Reposted by shulman737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 13/09/2023they were excellent comics 032
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 13/09/202350 years ago a group of teenagers published Friki, a comic satirizing Israeli nationalism during the Yom Kippur War. They were arrested on charges of agitation, revolution, and aiding Syrian intelligence services and convicted but were acquitted on appeal www.flickr.com/photos/hagil... 1121
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 12/09/2023Illustration by Walter Edgar for a Dybbuk performance starring Miriam Goldin and Nahum Zemach, 1920s www.flickr.com/photos/magne... 2132
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 11/09/2023I drew this photo of Bob Dylan (Shabtai Zisl Zimmerman) as a Rosh Hashanah greeting 2129
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 11/09/2023Amulet made for Rosh Hashanah in Kurdistan (present day Iran) in about 1920 cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?... 043
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 11/09/2023A Judaica repair shop in Lodz, Poland photos.yadvashem.org/photo-detail... 132
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 11/09/2023Tashlikh in Janova, Lithuania, Rosh Hashanah 1936 photos.yadvashem.org/photo-detail... 000
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 08/09/2023Three Jewish women in a graveyard on Rosh Hashanah yivo1000towns.cjh.org/picture.asp?... 051
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 08/09/2023Polish Jew carrying a pot of cholent to be cooked for shabbat in the 1930s collections.ushmm.org/search/catal... 130
Reposted by shulmanAdne Sadeh @adnesadeh.bsky.social · 05/09/2023“Amazing 4 page testimonial given in 1939 about the dybbuk that plagued Bunker Street in Chicago in 1902” from @shvlman.bsky.social www.loc.gov/resource/wpa...loc.govImage 1 of [The Dybbuk of Bunker Street] 052
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 05/09/2023Here you can read a 4 page testimonial given in 1939 about the suspected dybbuk that plagued Bunker St. in Chicago in 1902. His father passed away suddenly which was thought to be because of the dybbuk. Or typhoid www.loc.gov/resource/wpa... 110
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 31/08/2023Shofar decorated with silver, made in Casablanca, Morocco in about 1920 cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?... 031
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Rosh Hashanah card made in Germany in the late 19th or early 20th century museums.cjh.org/web/pages/cj... 081
Reposted by shulmanAdne Sadeh @adnesadeh.bsky.social · 24/08/2023New book! Meyer Levin’s Classic Hasidic Tales. Totally @shvlman.bsky.social ’s fault. Fortunately, the illustrations on page 229 “the circumcision” is just the mohel holding the baby. I was scared. 021
shulman @shvlman.bsky.social · 24/08/2023Yiddish edition of The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, published by the People's Library in Warsaw in 1911 Illustration by Lev Brodaty expositions.nlr.ru/ex_olcaa/ser... 071
