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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

With All Their Might – Kibbutz Ovadia in Slawków

Yochanan Ben-Yaacov

Kibbutz Ovadia’s unique blend of “Torah and Avoda,” learning and labor, served as a model for religious kibbutzim forming in prestate Israel and beyond – but the demands of this Polish Jewish collective experiment took...

ArticlesIssue 67 | December 2023PioneersPolandPre-state of IsraelZionism

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Shraga Bar-On

Though he saw the Jewish people as trapped in a fatal, dead-end existence, writer Hillel Zeitlin labored to bring redemption. Struggling with doubt, he kept hoping and praying, wrestling with contradictions to create a role...

ArticleshasidismIssue 72 | March 2025PolandWritersWWII

Spark of Rebellion

ליאור אלפרוביץ'

Tension in the Air For the staff of the Treblinka death camp, Monday morning, August 2, 1943, dawned routinely. The SS officers went about their duties. Prisoners were rounded up for morning roll call, given...

ArticlesHolocaustHolocaust dayPoland

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

Yair Lifshitz

An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures of Jewish society, making a mockery of their authority Yair Lifshitz Reb Yeshaya Priwes was...

19th centuryArticlesIssue 9 | February 2012Literature and CulturePolandPurim

The Original Zionist Congress

Asael Abelman

Eastern European Locals Pave the Way for Herzl The Russian pogroms of 1881–2 and growing European anti-Semitism precipitated vast Jewish emigration from eastern Europe, mostly to the U.S. and western Europe. A tiny minority headed...

19th centuryIndependence DayPolandZionism

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

ArticlesGermanyHolocaustHolocaust dayIssue 17 | June 2013PolandRabbisWWII

Poland

Quick Looks at Books

With All Their Might – Kibbutz Ovadia in Slawków

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Spark of Rebellion

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

The Original Zionist Congress

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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Quick Looks at Books

With All Their Might – Kibbutz Ovadia in Slawków

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Spark of Rebellion

Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

The Original Zionist Congress

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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