כותב, Author at סגולה

The Book of Exodus: A Biography

What can Princeton University’s Lives of Great Religious Books series possibly add to the reams already written on the enormous religious and political influence of the book of Exodus, particularly Michael Walzer’s classic Exodus and...

Reviews>Book Reviews

Shmuel Zanwil Kahane’s Map of Holy Sites

כותב

The Rock of Destruction Location: Jerusalem Hills Near Eshtaol and Zor’a, atop a barren, stony hill along the road to Jerusalem, a lone rock juts out. Here, according to a legend recorded in the early...

ללא קטגוריה

Postcard from Mount Zion featuring the curator’s blessing and signature|Kahane’s landmarks emphasized Jewish heroism dating back two millennia as opposed to the recent sacrifices of classic Zionist pilgrimage sites. Betar youth movement members beneath the sculpture of the roaring lion commemorating Trumpeldor’s death at Tel Hai

Curator or Creator

כותב

Nowhere to Go In 1950, Jerusalem gained a new pilgrimage site: the Lion’s Cave, located in the Muslim graveyard of the city’s Mamilla neighborhood. The man responsible for this innovation was the director of Israel’s...

Historic Characters|Jerusalem Day

Crowds accompanying the ashes from Austrian concentration camps as Kahane brought them to Mt. Zion

Shmuel Zanwil Kahane and the Legend of the Holy Ashes

כותב

The Curator's Vision Shmuel Zanwil Kahane, director of Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs from 1949 to 1979, possessed a keen sense of history. Enormous changes had overtaken the Jewish people, demanding a narrative beyond the...

Lag baOmer|Tisha B'Av

|שליטי המחוזות התאחדו כדי להתנגד לכיבוש הספרדי. מפה בדמות לאו בלגיקוס - האריה של ארצות השפלה - מוקפת במושלי המדינה|קרוע בין פרשנותו לכתובים לבין הרצון להשתייך. 'אוריאל דה קוסטה'||הים היה זירת קרב מרכזית. אש אוחזת בספינה ספרדית. 'קרב גיברלטר 1607'|כמו אוריאל דה קוסטה גם ברוך שפינוזה גורש מהקהילה

The Price of Dissent

כותב

Amsterdam, Holland’s greatest city, epitomizes liberalism and freedom. The famous coffee shops of the De Wallen neighborhood, the red-light district, the free-flowing alcohol at the many breweries, and the general “anything goes” atmosphere attract millions...

Historic Characters|אמסטרדם

Messianic Mania

כותב

When I had attained the age of 20, I began to study the Zohar and the Lurianic writings. [According to the Talmud] whoever wants to purify himself receives the aid of Heaven; and thus He...

Historic Characters|Shavuot

||ביטוי אישי. עמודים מהגדת וולף שהעתיק יעקב בן שלמה. בהערת שוליים הוא הפנה את הקוראים לקונטרס 'ישועות יעקב' שבו עסק במהותם של הנסים בכלל ושל מכות מצרים בפרט||היהודים הואשמו בציד עכבישים

Divinely Plagued

כותב

Seldom can any individual distill the defining events of his sojourn in this world into a single sentence. Yet sometimes a few words from a familiar, seminal text can evoke just such a sense of...

Pesach

47 | Nisan 5779 | April 2019

כותב

47 - Song of the Lonely Poet // Yemima Hovav Cowed by his reputation as Jewish national poet, Hayim Nahman Bialik’s personal life was much less tempestuous than some might have preferred. Was it lack...

ללא קטגוריה

38 | Tammuz 5777 | July 2017

כותב

38 Lonely Man of Honor // Yemima Hovav Ultimate visionary and despicable rival, forged in his native Odessa but focused on the Promised Land, Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky was unique – and an outsider – among...

ללא קטגוריה

39 | Tishrei 5778 | Sept 2017

כותב

39 Through Lions' Gate // Yagil Henkin Why was the 1967 battle for Jerusalem so different from the way it was planned? Was the heroic capture of Ammunition Hill unnecessary? And why did General Uzi...

ללא קטגוריה

40 | Kislev 5778 | Nov 2017

כותב

40 Long Before Balfour // Ran Ichay While the Balfour Declaration is famous as the first major step toward creating a modern Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, the groundwork was laid centuries earlier,...

ללא קטגוריה

כותב

The Book of Exodus: A Biography

Shmuel Zanwil Kahane’s Map of Holy Sites

Curator or Creator

Shmuel Zanwil Kahane and the Legend of the Holy Ashes

The Price of Dissent

Messianic Mania

Divinely Plagued

47 | Nisan 5779 | April 2019

38 | Tammuz 5777 | July 2017

39 | Tishrei 5778 | Sept 2017

40 | Kislev 5778 | Nov 2017

Join us

Follow us

Deepen your knowledge and embrace your Jewish heritage