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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

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Eunuch’s Costume for the Ballet ScheherazadeParis, 191027 X 43 cmGouache and graphite with gold accentsMetropolitan Museum of Art New York Léon Bakst1866-1924 Art NouveauAn international style of art, design, and architecture popular...

19th centuryArtColumnsEuropeIssue 71 | December 2024

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Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic | Reading Herzl in Beirut Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s AtticRereading the Women of the Talmud Gila FineMaggid Books, 2024, 249 pages It’s rare to...

Book ReviewsColumnsEuropeIssue 71 | December 2024Medieval Period

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Yitzhak Krausz

At first glance, 19th-century rabbi Yehuda Alkalai’s writings seem like traditional Jewish interpretations of biblical prophecies, but closer scrutiny reveals a strikingly modern redemptive vision – which had yet to be dubbed Zionism Yitzhak Krausz...

19th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 71 | December 2024Rabbis

A Novel Approach – Historical Romance

Asael Abelman

Whether by Sir Walter Scott or by Abraham Mapu, the historical novel of the 19th century played a significant part in the rise of national consciousness that changed the face of Europe. The Jews of...

19th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and Culture

Winning the Race – New Israel

Assaf Malach

The Christian kingdoms of medieval Europe found inspiration for their national vision in the biblical narrative of God’s chosen race Assaf Malach In 1523, a Christian scribe copying a Russian translation of Psalms noted, in...

ArticlesEuropeIssue 10 | April 2012Medieval PeriodReligions

Watchdog of Israel

Chana Shacham-Rosby

Back to the article Waiting for Elijah – Elijah in the Haggadah The connection between Elijah and canines begins in the Talmud: “Our rabbis taught: When dogs howl, [it’s a sign that] the Angel of...

EuropeIssue 64 | March 2023Medieval PeriodPesach

Waiting for Elijah – Elijah in the Haggadah

Chana Shacham-Rosby

When the Pesach Seder took shape almost two thousand years ago, it made no mention of Elijah the prophet. How did the biblical zealot find his way into the haggadah? Medieval Ashkenazic traditions may hold...

ArticlesEuropeIssue 64 | March 2023Medieval PeriodPesach

Evangelical Prophet of Zion – William Hechler

Yehuda Moraly

Who would have guessed that the man who crops up most frequently in Theodor Herzl’s diaries was an Evangelical pastor? William Hechler’s religious fervor led him to Zionism, which in turn inspired him to place...

19th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 64 | March 2023

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Yemima Hovav

A Jewish money changer disappears one fine day in Hamburg, never to be heard of again. Three years later, another one vanishes. Only one woman connected the two events and dared to seek justice Yemima...

ArticlesEarly modern periodEuropeGermanyIssue 45 | November 2018

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

Daphna Yizrael

Once a Jewish hub with an international ambiance, now a Ukrainian provincial capital: a group of Israeli youths searching for the vestiges of Czernowitz’s Jewish glory found spectacular murals in what is today an Evangelical...

20th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 1 | April 2010Ukraine

Europe

Quick Looks at Books

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Quick Looks at Books

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

A Novel Approach – Historical Romance

Winning the Race – New Israel

Watchdog of Israel

Waiting for Elijah – Elijah in the Haggadah

Evangelical Prophet of Zion – William Hechler

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

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Europe

Quick Looks at Books

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Quick Looks at Books

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

A Novel Approach – Historical Romance

Winning the Race – New Israel

Watchdog of Israel

Waiting for Elijah – Elijah in the Haggadah

Evangelical Prophet of Zion – William Hechler

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

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