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Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan wrote the following letter to her father in Hebrew during her stay in Jerusalem in 1933, in response to his question of whether she recommended his relocating there Hadassah Kaplan Dear Father, When...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWomen

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...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025Land of IsraelPre-state of IsraelReviews>Book Reviews

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Slave TradeOil on canvas162 x 229 cmParis, circa 1840Wilberforce House Museum,Hull, England François-Auguste Biard1799–1882 Genre ArtAn outgrowth of Realism, genre art focuses on the world as it is, including any typical depiction...

19th centuryAmericaArtColumnsIssue 72 | March 2025

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Tamar HaYardeni

In a picturesque valley dividing Israel’s parliament and government offices from Jerusalem’s ritzier areas, an ancient monastery nestles within a small nature reserve. Traces of hidden treasure, desperate struggle, and daring heroes are said to...

ColumnsIssue 72 | March 2025JerusalemMedieval Period

Tale of a Trail | The Store

Tamar HaYardeni

Behind an innocent-looking Tel Aviv storefront, Israel’s infant arms industry churned out bullets, mortars, and guns right under the British Mandate’s nose Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The Store Secret Hagana armory10 Ha-sharon Street, Tel Aviv...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025

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

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Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Book Review | Promised Lands

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Tale of a Trail | The Store

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

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Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Book Review | Promised Lands

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Tale of a trail | Monastery of the Cross

Tale of a Trail | The Store

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

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