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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

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Father of modern Hebrew Eliezer Ben Yehuda describes how Balkan nationalism drew him to Zionism Eliezer Ben Yehuda Eliezer Ben Yehuda (see “Hebrew Zealot,” Segula 22) wrote this article soon after the issuance of the...

19th centuryColumnsGreeceIssue 71 | December 2024WritersZionism

Feeding the Heavens – Jewish Birdfeeding Customs

Yossi Ziv

Both Polish and Ethiopian Jews traditionally fed birds at specific times of year, ascribing deep meaning to this practice. Did the custom spread from south to north with the migratory flocks, or was it simply...

ArticlesEarly modern periodEthiopiaGermanyIssue 71 | December 2024Jewish CommunitiesTu Bishvat

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

Yitzhak Krausz

Back to the article The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai The concept of the Jewish people’s revival in its ancient homeland shuttled between a disintegrating Ottoman Empire and Balkan countries aspiring to independence....

19th centuryGreeceIssue 71 | December 2024RabbisZionism

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

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jews Mourning in ExileOil on canvas163 x 133 cmDusseldorf, 1832Wallraf-Richartz Museum,Cologne, Germany Eduard Bendemann1811-1889 RomanticismA reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this late-18th-century movement in literature, philosophy, and art emphasized the subjective,...

19th centuryArtColumnsGermanyIssue 69 | June 2024

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944 Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis filled her...

20th centuryArtColumnsCzech RepublicIssue 64 | March 2023Women

From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

Hadassah Assouline

A sentence in the concluding prayer of every synagogue service infuriated Christians as an anti-Christian slur aimed at their messiah. An imperial decree wiped the offending words from the prayer books of Ashkenaz Hadassah Assouline...

ColumnsEarly modern periodGermanyIssue 10 | April 2012

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

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Portrait of a People | On Stage

Quick Looks at Books

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Feeding the Heavens – Jewish Birdfeeding Customs

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

A Novel Approach – Historical Romance

Winning the Race – New Israel

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Europe

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Quick Looks at Books

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Feeding the Heavens – Jewish Birdfeeding Customs

Journey of an Idea – From Rabbi Bibas to Herzl

The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

From the Archives | A Bonfire of Vanities

A Novel Approach – Historical Romance

Winning the Race – New Israel

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