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This article was published in issue 56 | Adar 5781 | March 2021 In the summer of 1873, Rabbi Asher Perlov, master of the Karlin Hasidic dynasty (originating in Karlin, near Pinsk, in today’s Belarus), passed...
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This article was published in issue 55 | kislev 5781 | December 2020 Excavations in Tell Kuyunjiq – site of ancient Nineveh – from Austen Henry Layard’s travelogue, Nineveh and Its Remains, 1849 Early success, tragic...
This article was published in issue 53 | Av 5780 | July 2020 On the first day of Nisan, 1909, a Jerusalem burial society made the following entry in its log: Let it be noted for...
This article was published in issue 52 | Nisan 5780 | April 2020 In early 1969, a very elderly man lay in a darkened hospice room in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood. Almost nothing was left of him...
[To hear this article on our podcast please click here] Gateway to the Empire In 1492, four hundred glorious years of Spanish Jewish literature and culture abruptly ended. The land that had nurtured brilliant Jewish...
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Denise Rein
Great Expectations On Februay 24, 1924, B. E. Asscher, chairman of Amsterdam’s Ashkenazic community, informed his fellow congregants that Queen Wilhelmina of Holland planned to visit the city’s Great Synagogue with her husband, Prince Heinrich...
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New in Town On the second day of the week, on 14 Nisan of the year 5675 from creation, according to the calendar we use here in the holy city of Bisan (may it be...
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...
45 Pools and Palaces // Eyal Regev Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist on the outside but Jewish within? The Hasmoneans were...
