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The Sages | For the Freedom of Zion | A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The SagesCharacter, Context and Creativity - Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israelby Binyamin Lau Maggid Books, 2022278 pages...
Sara Jo Ben-Zvi
Editor of Segula. A graduate of Cambridge University, she completed rabbinic advocate studies and lectures widely on Jewish history and the Bible
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101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel | The Massacre That Never Was Sara Jo Ben-Zvi 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israelby Raquel Ukeles et al. Scala Arts Publishers2023, 334 pages Artfully...
Book Review | Promised Lands
Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Promised LandsHadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher New York University, 2025, 261 pages Sharon Ann Musher’s detailed analysis of her grandmother’s...
Film review | The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must...
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Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe | One Day in October Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval EuropePrinciples and Pressures Haym Soloveitchik Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2024274 pages ...
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The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic | Reading Herzl in Beirut Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s AtticRereading the Women of the Talmud Gila FineMaggid Books, 2024, 249 pages It’s rare to...
A Day at the Museum | Bialik Square
A nostalgic, European-style city square has been renovated once again, this time commemorating a century since Hayim Nahman Bialik’s arrival in Tel Aviv Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Bialik Square is one of Tel Aviv’s oldest public...
Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures
Stepping into the world of Shlomo Moussaieff's antiquities collection at his home in Herzliya is more like walking into a magical Aladdin's cave than a neatly categorized museum. His fascinating – and controversial – collection...
A Dig Full of Holes
Judaean Mystery: Junk or Jewels? Maresha is an archaeological oddity. First of all, nobody's heard of it, as it’s usually lumped together with nearby Beth Guvrin. Then there’s the fact that almost nothing of it...
