Home > Issue 31 > Columns Portrait of a People | The Truth Behind the Title Naomi Samuel The Jewish BrideOil on canvas122 x 166 cmRijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt van Rijn – Self-Portrait, 1659 Rembrandt van Rijn1606-1669 Baroque Not yet a Segula subscriber? Access our full archive online, have print issues delivered to your door, and more Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Log in Feel free to share Issue 31 Related Topics Post-script | Posting IndependenceDespite the need for secrecy, and with production lines under fire, Israel’s first stamps were printed in time for independence Itamar Atzmon On 5 I...From the Archives | Hasidim at HeartWhat do Israel’s third president, businessman and publisher Salman Schocken, and Breslov Hasidic leader Rabbi Yisroel Dov Ber Odesser have in common? A pamphlet...From the Archives | Mum’s the WordEighteenth-century birth registries list a surprisingly large number of “unwed” Jewish mothers, but immorality wasn’t the issue Hadassah Assouline T...Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount MeronIsrael Bak wasn’t one to give up. The first printer in Ottoman Palestine, he also established an agricultural village on Mount Meron in a series of none-too-suc...Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of NahmanTwo letters sent by Nahmanides to his sons provide a glimpse of his personal life Nahmanides’ scant surviving personal correspondence includes the following two...