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Issue 30 | February 2016

Articles

From Port To Port – Thessaloniki

Atar Peleg

Nothing fazed the potential immigrants from the bustling port of Thessaloniki (Salonica) – neither the draconian union contract they had to sign nor the possibility of working on the Sabbath, which they’d never done back home. Was their abs

Always a Stranger – Maurycy Gottlieb

Yemima Hovav

Maurycy Gottlieb aspired to be Polish Jewry’s national artist, changing its image with his brush and palette. His tragic death cut short his musings on Jewish identity Yemima Hovav The iconic Jews Praying in the Synagogue on the

Heroes on the Walls of Haifa – First Crusade

Yuval Malachi

The Crusader forces besieging the high walls of Haifa were unprepared for the fierce resistance they met. On the ramparts, Jews and Muslims fought side by side, simple laborers and soldiers, united by the danger they faced Yuval Malachi

Columns

From the Archives | The Ultimate Schism

Adrienn Sepa

Hungarian Jew or Jewish Hungarian? When electing a Jewish congress in the mid-1800s, Hungary’s Jews couldn’t decide Adrienn Sepa Though Jews campaigned long and hard for equality in their many countries of dispersion, the privil