A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before Passover outside the doors of men afflicted with fungal infections of the ...
Start with a Talmud tractate, with its colorfully folkloric floral cover, from 1721 Frankfurt. Juxtapose that with a photograph of scruffy, gun-wielding, buggy-riding “Jewish gauchos” from 1906 ...