Elka Weber, Author at סגולה

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

Hollywood contemporaries Irving Berlin and Ben Hecht lived vastly different Jewish lives, with posterity predictably rewarding the politically correct Berlin and relegating Hecht to relative obscurity Elka Weber Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving PicturesAdina Hoffman...

Columns

Issue 54 | September 2020

Quick looks at books

Elka Weber

Jews in Medicine | The Promise and Peril of Credit Elka Weber Jews in MedicineContributions to Health and Healing through the Ages Ronald L. EisenbergUrim Publications, 2019, 464 pages A practicing physician with a...

Book Reviews

Columns

Issue 48 | July 2019

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Elka Weber

Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...

Issue 16 | April-May 2013

WWII

Quick Looks at Books

Elka Weber

The Legacy | The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89 | Dirty Jewess | Writing on the Wall Elka Weber The Legacy Melanie PhillipsBombardier Books, 2018, 400 pages Celebrated British journalist Melanie Phillips’...

Book Reviews

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Issue 45 | November 2018

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

Elka Weber

Was Abraham Lincoln’s attitude to Jews just an extension of his genuine affection for all men, regardless of race or creed, or did it reflect a special regard for the people of the book? Marking...

Book Review | Pleasant are their Names

Elka Weber

Tell me your name and I’ll tell you where you come from. The origins and significance of Jewish names is a fast developing field of research, a rare window opening onto a world long-thought left...

Book Reviews

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Early modern period

Issue 10 | April 2012

Book Review | The autobiography of Solomon Maimon

Elka Weber

Solomon Maimon’s translation of his role model’s Guide for the Perplexed lies at the heart of his autobiography, attesting to his stubborn quest for knowledge above all Elka Weber The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon:The Complete...

Columns

Issue 50 | December 2019

||Schama is particularly informative about the various Jews who influenced and educated Moses Mendelssohn. Ark curtain made from Fromet Mendelssohn’s wedding gown|Boxing champion Daniel Mendoza in the ring. Etching by James Gillray

Trying to Belong

Elka Weber

Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Schama Bodley Head, 2017 790 pages,Extraordinary Individual Simon Schama’s magisterial Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 begins with a false messiah who blusters his way into...

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Elka Weber

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

Quick looks at books

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Quick Looks at Books

Book review | Lincoln and the Jews

Book Review | Pleasant are their Names

Book Review | The autobiography of Solomon Maimon

Trying to Belong

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