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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...

anti-SemitismBook ReviewsColumnsFranceIssue 52 | April 2020WWII

Film review | An Officer and a Spy

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

The hero of Roman Polanski’s new film isn’t Dreyfus, or even Zola, but the French officer whose pursuit of justice led to the Jew’s release Sara Jo Ben-Zvi An Officer and a Spy Roman Polanski132...

19th centuryanti-SemitismColumnsfilm reviewsIssue 52 | April 2020ParisPeople

Portrait of a People | A Critical Eye

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Portrait of Émile Zola Paris, 1868Oil on canvas146.5 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Édouard Manet1832–1883 Realism and Impressionism French journalist and art critic Émile Zola’s famous exposé of Captain Alfred Dreyfus’ innocence wasn’t...

19th centuryColumnsImpressionismIssue 52 | April 2020Paris

Book Review | Next Year in Marienbad

Yemima Hovav

Resorts are a world unto themselves, with their own mores and culture. In the 19th century, the spa towns of western Bohemia were patronized largely by Jews from all over Europe, creating a transient, highly...

20th centuryColumnsCzech RepublicIssue 55 | December 2020

From the Archives | Too Much of a Good Thing

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

Jews have always prayed for rain, but those in northern Italy suffered from too much rather than too little, inspiring prayers for protection from flooding Yochai Ben-Ghedalia The Mishnaic tractate Ta’anit (Fasting) devotes extensive space...

ColumnsFrom the ArchivesIssue 55 | December 2020ItalyJudaism

Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Knotted CarpetDessau, 1929Bauhaus Archive, Berlin Otti Berger1898–1944 Otti Berger was one of the most influential women to study and teach at the Bauhaus school. Born in the Austro-Hungarian village of Zmajevac (today in...

20th centuryArtistsColumnsGermanyHolocaustIssue 60 | February 2022Women

From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

Janne Moehring

How did Walter Dirr, born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, come to be drafted into Hitler’s army? Clues from a family archive Janne Moehring The curious case of Walter Dirr begins with...

ColumnsFrom the ArchivesGermanyIssue 60 | February 2022WWII

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Yaakov Ben-Ze’ev

Identifying perhaps more with the plague-ridden Egyptians than with liberated Israel, the scribe of the prized Wolff Haggada referred readers to his epic testimony concerning the horrors of the Black Plague and how he reconciled...

ArticlesFranceIssue 47 | April 2019Medieval PeriodPeoplePesach

Quick Looks at Books

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,...

20th centuryBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 63 | December 2022Land of IsraelPolandRoman Empire

The Avenger – Shalom Schwarzbard

Moriya Ta’asan Mikhaeli

Five gunshots fired on a busy Paris street in broad daylight set the scene for a controversial murder trial. A Jewish watchmaker confessed to the crime, but the resulting proceedings tried the victim rather than...

ArticlesFranceIssue 63 | December 2022PeoplepogromsUkraineWW1

Who Invited the Rabbi? – Rabbis at Weddings

Ariel Picard

Rabbis have officiated at weddings for centuries, but the Talmud mentions no such practice. So how did Jewish clergy become an integral part of the ceremony? Ariel Picard Many human endeavors begin spontaneously but gradually...

ArticlesEuropeIssue 68 | March 2024JudaismLifecycleMedieval PeriodRabbis

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Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

Film review | An Officer and a Spy

Portrait of a People | A Critical Eye

Book Review | Next Year in Marienbad

From the Archives | Too Much of a Good Thing

Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Quick Looks at Books

The Avenger – Shalom Schwarzbard

Who Invited the Rabbi? – Rabbis at Weddings

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Europe

Book Review | Revolution in Paradise

Film review | An Officer and a Spy

Portrait of a People | A Critical Eye

Book Review | Next Year in Marienbad

From the Archives | Too Much of a Good Thing

Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

Quick Looks at Books

The Avenger – Shalom Schwarzbard

Who Invited the Rabbi? – Rabbis at Weddings

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