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Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel InteriorOil on canvas295 x 320 cmCape Town, c. 1930–35Iziko South AfricanNational Gallery, Cape Town Wolf Kibel1903-1938 ExpressionismTwentieth-century movement seeking to convey emotion rather than reality, often through distortion or exaggeration I...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025

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...

ColumnsIssue 16 | April-May 2013

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

ספיר

Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. ספיר Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages On November 10, 1975,...

ColumnsIssue 16 | April-May 2013

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Michael Goldblum

A new annotated translation of the Talmud is not just more of the same, but signifies a departure in Talmud study, inviting engaged discussion instead of enshrining tradition Michael Goldblum Koren Talmud Bavli, BerakhotCommentary by...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 11 | July 2012

Film review | The Iron Lady

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and CultureUnited KingdomWomen

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Shai Secunda

The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Shai Secunda Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 280 pages...

AntiquityBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Middle EastReligions

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe | One Day in October Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval EuropePrinciples and Pressures Haym Soloveitchik Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2024274 pages ...

Book ReviewsColumnsEuropeIssue 70 | September 2024Medieval Period

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

Tamar HaYardeni

An American villa, a Russian baron with Swiss and Ethiopian wives, and a tropical garden with trees from all over the world. Beit Immanuel, in Jaffa’s German Colony, typifies the multiethnic land of Israel before...

19th centuryColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 70 | September 2024Tel Aviv

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

When did countries begin maintaining birth and death registries, and how does the lack of earlier data limit genealogical research? Yochai Ben-Ghedalia Shortly after a child is born, usually even before he’s named, the hospital...

ColumnsEarly modern periodGermanyIssue 70 | September 2024Lifecycle

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon Adler1630-1709 BaroqueOrnate, mainly 17th-century style of European architecture, art, and music, encouraged by the Catholic church in...

ArtColumnsIssue 45 | November 2018

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

Assaf Avraham

Royal capital of the northern kingdom of Israel until its destruction Where? Northwest of Shekhem (Nablus)When? First Temple, Roman period Assaf Avraham Photo: Zev Radovan And Ahab son of Omri ruled Israel in Samaria twenty-two...

AntiquityColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 45 | November 2018Land of Israel

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Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Film review | The Iron Lady

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

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Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

Film review | The Iron Lady

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

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