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Portrait of a People | Touring the Land

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Tiberias, View from the Walls withSafed in the DistanceChalk on paperTiberias, 1839 David Roberts1796–1864 OrientalismRomantic Western depictions of everyday life in Near Eastern settings, beginning largely with Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt and the...

ColumnsIssue 53 | July 2020

Portrait of a People | Just Visiting

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jews Mourning in a SynagogueOil on canvas127 x 115 cmLondon, 1906Tate Gallery, London Sir William Rothenstein1872-1945 Post-ImpressionismAn eclectic pre–World War I movement founded in response to Impressionism. Led by Cézanne and including Van...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Tale of a Trail | Muhraka

Tamar HaYardeni

How did the statue of Elijah in the Carmelite monastery on Keren Carmel lose its arm, then regain it? Of Scripture and sculpture Tamar HaYardeni Where To? MuhrakaStatue of Elijah at Keren Carmel Monastery ...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger

Salomon Steinberger was the cantor of a major Frankfurt synagogue for thirty years, until he fled to England in 1939. Having studied in the prestigious Pressburg Yeshiva (then located in today’s Bratislava, Slovakia) while Yossele...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

Elka Weber

Hollywood contemporaries Irving Berlin and Ben Hecht lived vastly different Jewish lives, with posterity predictably rewarding the politically correct Berlin and relegating Hecht to relative obscurity Elka Weber Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving PicturesAdina Hoffman...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

In the early 1960s, a young teacher named Adin Steinsaltz gave a lecture envisioning a Hasidic revival in Israel. Today, his words seem prophetic – but they were simply a personal plan of action Yochai...

ColumnsIssue 54 | September 2020

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Tamar HaYardeni

From ancient geological wonder to crocodile spa, Hamat Gader has gone through many incarnations and as many hands. Despite its pagan statues, its hot springs drew even the Talmudic sages Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Hamat...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Vladimir Lenin in SmolnyOil on canvas190 x 287 cm1930New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky1884-1939 Socialist RealismThisgenre generally refers to the formallyrealistic, thematically artificial style of painting emerging in Russiafollowing the Communist Revolution...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

A Day at the Museum | L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art

Amit Assis

The precious clocks in Jerusalem’s L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art chronicle Europe’s fascination with timekeeping, making it portable, beautiful, fanciful, even political – but above all, precise Amit Assis L. A. Mayer Museum...

ArtColumnsIssue 52 | April 2020JerusalemLiterature and CulturePost-1948timekeeping

From the Archives | Light-Years Ahead

Franziska Ehmer

Eccentric amateur scientist Elazar Mei-Zahav was way ahead of his time. He died unrecognized, but his ideas live on Franziska Ehmer “Don’t just throw away this empty box!” This pithy appeal, intended as part of...

ColumnsFrom the ArchivesinventorsIssue 52 | April 2020Pre-state of IsraelTel Aviv

Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Yehuda Moraly’s examination of French cinema under German occupation reveals an uncomfortable subtext its creators have tried to erase Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Revolution in Paradise: Veiled Representations of Jewish Characters in the Cinema of Occupied...

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Portrait of a People | Touring the Land

Portrait of a People | Just Visiting

Tale of a Trail | Muhraka

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

A Day at the Museum | L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art

From the Archives | Light-Years Ahead

Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

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Portrait of a People | Touring the Land

Portrait of a People | Just Visiting

Tale of a Trail | Muhraka

Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

A Day at the Museum | L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art

From the Archives | Light-Years Ahead

Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

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