A ketubah, Jewish traditional marriage contract, from Corfu, Greece, written on Friday, 11th of Nisan 5470 [Apr. 11, 1710]. The ketubah is beautifully illustrated with many colors: blue, yellow, green,red and gold. The Ms. lists the dowry given by…
Arkadii Frantsevich Koshko was a chief of Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. This excerpt from his memoirs concerns the Beilis ritual murder case. On March 20, 1911, the mutilated body of a twelve-year-old boy was discovered in a cave near…
This account of an early Western encounter with the Islamic East was written by the son of a coffee merchant, and was originally published in Amsterdam and in Paris in 1716 as Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse. It contains a description of the Arabian…