Yemima Hovav, Author at סגולה

Cover of Charlotte’s gouache autobiography, Life? Or Theater? – the source of all illustrations accompanying this article

Painting for Dear Life – Charlotte Salomon

When Charlotte Salomon discovered that her mother, aunt, and grandmother had all committed suicide – among other women in her family – she refused to succumb to their fate. As the Nazi noose tightened around...

Articles

Issue 51 | February 2020

Book Review | Next Year in Marienbad

Yemima Hovav

Resorts are a world unto themselves, with their own mores and culture. In the 19th century, the spa towns of western Bohemia were patronized largely by Jews from all over Europe, creating a transient, highly...

20th century

Columns

Czech Republic

Issue 55 | December 2020

A Zionist Life – Chaim Weizmann

Yemima Hovav

When requesting that Chaim Weizmann become Israel’s first president, Ben-Gurion described him as having done more to create the state than anyone else. Yet Weizmann’s new role effectively removed the lifelong activist from Israeli politics...

20th century

Articles

Israel Independence Day

Issue 75 | December 2025

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Yemima Hovav

A Jewish money changer disappears one fine day in Hamburg, never to be heard of again. Three years later, another one vanishes. Only one woman connected the two events and dared to seek justice Yemima...

Issue 45 | November 2018

Poet of the Promised Land – Rachel

Yemima Hovav

When the delicate young woman stepped off the boat in Jaffa and swore never to leave the land of Israel, no one dreamt how great her influence on Israeli culture was to be. Her name...

Articles

Historic Characters

Issue 42 | March 2018

Guard Down

Yemima Hovav

Joseph Lishansky’s flight, capture, and death show just how low political rivalry can sink Yemima Hovav Unnlike most of Nili’s rank and file, Joseph Lishansky had a foot in both Labor Zionism and the bourgeois...

Issue 23 | October 2014

WW1

Return of the Spies – Nili

Yemima Hovav

In the dark days of World War I, members of the Nili spy ring foresaw the new order emerging in the Middle East and opted to work with the British, despite all the risks. To...

Articles

Issue 23 | October 2014

Zionist with Cello – Thelma Yellin

Yemima Hovav

What place was there for music, let alone an orchestra, amid the Zionist practicalities of state-building? For internationally renowned cellist Thelma Yellin and the young musicians she nurtured in Jerusalem, the question struck a chord...

Articles

Issue 27 | August 2015

Women

Zionism

Always a Stranger – Maurycy Gottlieb

Yemima Hovav

Maurycy Gottlieb aspired to be Polish Jewry’s national artist, changing its image with his brush and palette. His tragic death cut short his musings on Jewish identity Yemima Hovav The iconic Jews Praying in the...

Articles

Issue 30 | February 2016

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Hedy Lamarr at age 7 1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security;...