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Issue 12 | August 2012

Articles

Jewish? French? Italian! – Piedmont

Yoav Sorek

Despite their historic ties to diverse European communities, the Jews of Turin stood out as active players in the struggle for a united Italy – and planned a synagogue to match their achievements Yoav Sorek Embossed on the obver

When Shakespeare Spoke Yiddish – King Lear

Yair Lifshitz

The Yiddish theater adored Shakespeare’s King Lear. It spoke to American Jewish audiences of family loyalty transcending generational differences, while in Soviet Russia, it became a tragicomic vehicle for political criticism Yair Lifshitz

Columns

From the Archives | The Wedding That Wasn’t

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

Certification that a husband and wife are both in fact single? This was a peculiarly Orthodox method of fighting British restrictions on immigration to Palestine Yochai Ben-Ghedalia One might suppose that a local rabbinate’s arc