Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 07/07/2026From the archives but still applicable: It is important to learn how to cross streets safely. 082
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026110 years ago today, the Yidishes Tageblatt announced the passing of a beloved writer with the perfect headline (image via LOC) 0338
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I recently had to explain to a 28 year old native NYer that she has been caring for a Holocaust survivor for years. She didn't know. She told me her schooling "glossed over" the Holocaust... Centenarian Jew from Hungary... She didn't know what that meant. 010
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Alice Duer Miller's 1915 introduction of her book "Are Women People? a book of rhymes for suffrage times". 040
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 08/04/2025An American classic: 1928 Yiddish advertisement for kosher l'Pesach Maxwell House Coffee. This was four years before Maxwell perfected their Passover marketing with the now ubiquitous Maxwell House Haggadah. 0193
Reposted by Chaya Sara LibraryThing @librarything.com · 02/03/2025Today is National Read Across America Day! Established by the National Education Association in 1998, in order to get kids excited about reading, the day also marks the birthday of phenomenal wordsmith Dr. Seuss. Which Seussian titles have you read and enjoyed? 💙📚 www.librarything.com/author/seussdr 254
Reposted by Chaya Sara Michael Waas @mdwaas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Happy to share that a rare Ottoman Empire Census with surnames for the Jewish community of Izmir that I located has been indexed and published on JewishGen. There will be more to come!groups.jewishgen.orgNew Records Added: 1247 AH Izmir Census (1831-1832)The new topic will begin with this message. Subject of the new topic: 1114
Reposted by Chaya Sara Reclaim The Records @reclaimtherecords.org · 25/12/2024~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~ We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON! And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans! And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!! mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...mailchi.mpReclaim The RecordsWe’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be... 39033
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 17/12/20241889 was clearly the time to buy property in Bensonhurst by the Sea, New Utrecht. 120
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024In 1945, a Jewish soldier describes himself as a Glitz-vak... 082
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024We can't say for sure, because it wasn't under our watch, but it loooks like he was a deserting alien seaman. 040
Chaya Sara @toldosandtea.bsky.social · 01/12/2024People often joke that Chayei Sarah is about me. To this, I reply, 'Unfortunately, I was a week late, so I had to become a genealogist.' 130
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INTRODUCTION
Father, what is the legislature?
A representative body elected by the people of the state.
Are women people?
No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
Do legislators legislate for nothing?
Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
By whom?
By the people.
Are women people?
Of course, my son, just as much as men are.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7kptbaysvpkhyn5zc4wq6ti/bafkreidroxhzdf3wuozbedaglzeqf5yufanmg53imcuzsv2fhbry77vvfm)
![[Newspaper clipping] headline reads: "Real Estate for Sale" [category:] for sale-country. Different from all other places. BENSONHURST-BY-THE-SEA is the select new village on New York Bay...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l7kptbaysvpkhyn5zc4wq6ti/bafkreiazyjwpeqraw7o7gkqd3jeid7yevr5daq2if4rhfqesicpuormnay)
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