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Written Off – Cora Wilburn

Jonathan D. Sarna

Who’s ever heard of Cora Wilburn, the first Jewish novelist in America? At nineteen, she’d traveled the world and disdained its corruption. Clawing her way out of poverty as the Civil War divided the United...

ArticlesHistoric CharactersIssue 37 | April 2017

Poet of the Promised Land – Rachel

Yemima Hovav

When the delicate young woman stepped off the boat in Jaffa and swore never to leave the land of Israel, no one dreamt how great her influence on Israeli culture was to be. Her name...

ArticlesHistoric CharactersIssue 42 | March 2018

Egypt’s Jewish Molière – James Sanua

Amr Zakaria Khalil

Banished from Egypt time and again for promoting nationalism and exposing government corruption, James Sanua harnessed humor and drama to continue jabbing at the regime from afar. Soon his satirical journal’s popularity outstripped even that...

ArticlesHistoric CharactersIssue 46 | January 2019

Historic Characters

Written Off – Cora Wilburn

Poet of the Promised Land – Rachel

Egypt’s Jewish Molière – James Sanua

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Historic Characters

Written Off – Cora Wilburn

Poet of the Promised Land – Rachel

Egypt’s Jewish Molière – James Sanua

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