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Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

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 centuryArticlesIssue 1 | April 2010Land of IsraelMiddle East

Victory at a Price – British Counter-Guerrilla Warfare

Haggai Olshanetsky

Is there any basis for the claim that guerrilla forces are invincible? The British Empire has bested them in a few vicious wars – but at what cost? And for how long? The answers often...

20th centuryAfricaArticlesIssue 69 | June 2024Middle East

Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

Michal Shaul

Although ultra-Orthodox Israelis don’t stand as the siren blares on Holocaust Memorial Day, the memory of European Jewry’s destruction continues to shape their community Michal Shaul Looking on from the sidelines, one might think Israel’s...

20th centuryArticlesHolocaust dayIssue 69 | June 2024Land of IsraelReligions

Awakening from Despair – Yosef Haim Brenner

Amit Assis

Yosef Haim Brenner’s stories are steeped in his own experiences. Deeply troubled by the Jewish people’s desperate state, he saw no solution in the land of Israel yet spoke up for it heroically. In life,...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 69 | June 2024Land of IsraelLiterature and CultureZionism

Drawing for Dear Life

Naomi Samuel

Charlotte “Lotte” Salomon was born just over a century ago to a wealthy Berlin family. Her father, a surgeon, pioneered mammography. Her mother committed suicide when Lotte was only nine, though the cause of death...

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The Jewish American Secret Police

Hadassah Assouline

A Jewish community organization in New York dealt with myriad issues, even creating an internal police force to deal with rising crime Hadassah Assouline In early September 1908, the chief of the New York City...

20th centuryAmerican JewsColumnsIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

Strength in Numbers

Jeffrey S. Gurock

In New York circa 1900, Jewish identity was in the streets and in the air; one in four New Yorkers was Jewish, and formal religious affiliation felt unnecessary. Fifty years later, suburban Jews needed communal...

20th centuryAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 11 | July 2012New York

No Business Like Show Business

Yuval Rivlin

Broadway was a springboard to integration for talented Jewish arrivals from Europe, yet their musicals’ immigrant themes are unmistakable Yuval Rivlin When asked to define modern Jewish identity, Sigmund Freud often responded with a story....

20th centuryAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 11 | July 2012New York

Ticket to Riches

Rebecca Kobrin

The waves of migration from eastern Europe did not simply ebb and flow. Orchestrated by the entrepreneurial spirit of the likes of Sender Jarmulowsky, they created surges of capital. The trade in ship tickets changed...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

My Son, the Gangster

Robert Rockaway

New York’s Jewish gangsters lived fast and furious. Exploiting the criminal opportunities created by Prohibition, they masterminded a network of crime that spread far beyond New York and earned their fellow Jews’ scorn – and...

20th centuryAmerican JewsArticlesIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

20th century

Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Victory at a Price – British Counter-Guerrilla Warfare

Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration