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|המגזין The Ladies' Own Magazine פתח את גיליון ינואר 1871 בדיוקנאות של כותביו הקבועים

Written Off

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Footloose and Fancy-Free “Journal, La Guayra, 1844,” the cover of the precious diary reads. Its nineteen-year-old author identifies herself as “Henrietta.” Four years later, she would leave Venezuela and enter the United States as “Henretty...
Historic Characters
הבריסטול בופייטר היה אחד ממפציצי הקרב המרכזיים שיוצרו בבריטניה במלחמת העולם השנייה. קרוב ל־6

Sky-Heist

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Baby Air Force Twenty-five years have passed since the Israeli Air Force Museum opened in the blazing sun over the Hatzerim air base, not far from Beersheba. Hundreds of models of retired warplanes are arrayed...
Independence Day
האם עלילת הדם היא שהביאה למאסר שני בניה של משפחת קוזי? כרוניקה היסטורית שהודפסה בנירנברג ב־1493 חוזרת על העלילה ומתארת את יהודי העיר טרנטו מקיזים את דמו של הנער הנוצרי|Poem written by Deborah

A Widow in Print

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Dawn of Hebrew Printing The dawn of Hebrew printing naturally followed hot on the heels of the earliest books published in Europe, circa 1455. The first year to figure in Hebrew print was 1475, beginning...
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Archaeologists’ efforts have unearthed entire towns dating back centuries and millennia. Will they now be permanently destroyed? Roman pillars in Sebastia

History Obliterated

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Everyone’s Story The Holy Land’s ancient vistas and treasures play a vital role in the identity and faith of many hundreds of millions the world over. Though certain biblical locations have gained World Heritage status,...
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פורים שפיל בגרסת היידישפיל. סצנה מתוך ההצגה 'די מגילה' המועלית כיום על ידי תאטרון היידישפיל

Megilla with a Secular Twist

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The Megilla’s Darker Side Itzik Manger was born in 1901 in Czernowitz, although one version of the biography he invented for himself claimed that his tailor father had migrated from Romania, and that he himself...
Purim
||Demetrius I

The Youngest Maccabee

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Guerrillas in the Hills The year 160 BCE found the Hasmonean family in a sorry state. Judah had fallen in battle, his army decimated and the Maccabee rebellion all but quashed. Seleucid king Demetrius I...
Hanukkah
Judah Maccabee purifies the Temple

Fighting for Heart and Soul

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Why Hannukah? And Judah, and his brethren, and all the congregation of Israel decreed that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight...
Hanukkah
Akra or not

Cast a Giant Shadow

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Antiochus' Castle People generally assume the history of Hasmonean Jerusalem began with the Seleucid conquest of Judea from the Egyptian Ptolemies, escalated with Antiochus Epiphanes’ anti-Jewish edicts and the idol he placed in the Temple,...
Hanukkah
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