Book Review | Miracle
Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Miracle: The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz Michael Calvin with Naftali Schiff2026, 233 pages Undeniable: The Untold Story of the Boys Who Escaped Gas Chamber 5 Jonathan KalmusJRoots...
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
Book Review | Mavericks, Mystics and False Messiahs
Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Mavericks, Mystics and False MessiahsEpisodes from the Margins of Jewish History Pini DunnerToby Press, 2018, 208 pages What do the following Jews –variously famous andobscure – have in common: Shabbetai Tzvi,...
Quick Looks at Books
People Love Dead Jews | The Letters Project | Abraham Joshua Heschel Sara Jo Ben-Zvi People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara HornW. W. Norton Company, 2021237 pages Dara Horn’s flowing...
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Karl Marx | The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion | Esther in America Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karl Marx Shlomo AvineriYale University Press, 2019, 240 pages A world expert on Marx, Shlomo...
A Day at the Museum | ANU
The reborn Museum of the Diaspora has a new name, a new narrative, and a new purpose Sara Jo Ben-Zvi courtesy of ANU Museum of the Jewish People ANUMuseum of the Jewish People Tel Aviv...
Book Review | Revolution in Paradise
Yehuda Moraly’s examination of French cinema under German occupation reveals an uncomfortable subtext its creators have tried to erase Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied...
Film review | An Officer and a Spy
The hero of Roman Polanski’s new film isn’t Dreyfus, or even Zola, but the French officer whose pursuit of justice led to the Jew’s release Sara Jo Ben-Zvi An Officer and a Spy Roman Polanski132...
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Ani Maamin | Walter Kaufmann | Hannah’s War Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith Joshua BermanMaggid Press, 2020, 334 pages Not strictly speaking a history...
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Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism | The Wealthy Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism Daniel J. LaskerLittman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022253 pages A...
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Medicine: From Biblical Canaan to Modern Israel | Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History | Memorable Sephardi Voices | Contextualizing Jewish Temples Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Medicine: From Biblical Canaan to Modern Israel...
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Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish | An Unchosen People | Jews and Their Roman Rivals | The 36 Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Categorically Jewish, Distinctly PolishPolish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted Moshe RosmanLittman Library of Jewish Civilization,...
