Sara Jo Ben-Zvi, Author at סגולה

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...

20th century

Articles

Issue 1 | April 2010

Land of Israel

Middle East

Book Review | Social Vision

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Rooting the Rebbe’s far-reaching campaigns directly in the Baal Shem Tov’s ideology, a sociologist explains why the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s vision was best suited to and carried out from the land of the free Sara Jo...

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

New York

Book Review | House on Endless Waters

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

A spontaneous visit to Amsterdam produces a tale within a tale, as the author, her characters, and their creations exchange identities against a background of betrayal and rescue under Nazi rule Sara Jo Ben-Zvi House...

Issue 50 | December 2019

Netherlands

Book Review | The Book of Exodus

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Book of ExodusA Biography Joel S. BadenPrinceton University Press, 2019,237 pages What can Princeton University’s Lives of Great Religious Books series possibly add to the reams already written on the enormous...

Columns

Issue 48 | July 2019

A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Has the Maresha excavation unearthed a pile of junk or the key to a Judea much more diverse than we’d supposed? The best thing is, you can find out for yourself Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Maresha...