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    Issue 42 | March 2018

    Issue 42 | March 2018

    Screenwriter Ben Hecht in 1945, at the peak of his Zionist activism | Getty Images

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  • Lights, Camera, Zionism! – Ben Hecht

    Tzahi Cohen

    What made Hollywood’s favorite screenwriter work for the Zionist underground? Was it Ben Hecht’s warm heart, his stormy personality, his shocking discovery of Nazi atrocities - or all three? In any case, the resulting production inspired th

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  • Book Review | Belonging

    Elka Weber

    Popular historian Simon Schama’s masterful new work depicts extraordinary Jews struggling with their surroundings more than the sweep of Jewish history as a whole Elka Weber Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Sch

  • From the Archives | A Widow in Print

    Channa Lockshin Bob

    The publication of a landmark code of Jewish law attests to a widow’s grit and determination in the face of recurring tragedy Channa Lockshin Bob The dawn of Hebrew printing naturally followed hot on the heels of the earliest bo

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