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Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Ani Maamin | Walter Kaufmann | Hannah’s War Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith Joshua BermanMaggid Press, 2020, 334 pages Not strictly speaking a history...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 55 | December 2020

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Elka Weber

Jews in Medicine | The Promise and Peril of Credit Elka Weber Jews in MedicineContributions to Health and Healing through the Ages Ronald L. EisenbergUrim Publications, 2019, 464 pages A practicing physician with a...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 48 | July 2019

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Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish | An Unchosen People | Jews and Their Roman Rivals | The 36 Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Categorically Jewish, Distinctly PolishPolish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted Moshe RosmanLittman Library of Jewish Civilization,...

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Critics | Iron Woman of Yom Kippur

Amit Assis and Sara Jo Ben Zvi

Fifty years after the war whose losses tarnished her legacy forever, Golda Meir is the subject of a new film and biography. Surprisingly, both the Israeli and American perspectives – zooming in on the war...

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Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Shylock’s Venice | The First Jewish Environmentalist | Like Salt for Bread | Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Shylock’s Venice Harry Freedman Bloomsbury, 2024247 pages Major strands of Jewish history were...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 68 | March 2024

Book Review | The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Many Lives of Anne Frank Ruth FranklinJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2025424 pages Is Anne Frank a symbol of Jewish oppression or a universal model of courage in the...

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Book Review | Herod the Great

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Martin GoodmanJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2024227 pages Martin Goodman begins this masterful chronicle of Herod’s tempestuous life by asking whether...

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Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel | The Massacre That Never Was Sara Jo Ben-Zvi 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israelby Raquel Ukeles et al. Scala Arts Publishers2023, 334 pages Artfully...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 67 | December 2023

Book Review | Promised Lands

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Promised LandsHadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher New York University, 2025, 261 pages Sharon Ann Musher’s detailed analysis of her grandmother’s...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025Land of IsraelPre-state of Israel

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Elka Weber

Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw...

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Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Yitzhak Klein

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. Yitzhak Klein Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages On November 10,...

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