Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A Kovno convert.

Recently Google and Yad Vashem announced that Google has digitized 130,000 photos and helped Yad Vashem put them online. Furthermore, Google doesn't do anything half-baked, so they also used the latest ocr technology to make a great deal of the text included in some of these photos searchable.

Here's a picture of the Baal Shem Tov, apparently brought to us by the power of the bagel:


I found an interesting photograph of someone named Izak ben Avraham, a ger in Kovno:


EDIT: If you're interested, keep checking this post, as I will keep adding things I found interesting. This is R. Koppel Charif, the great British-Jewish historian Charles Duschinsky's ancestor: