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    Issue 48 | July 2019

    Issue 48 | July 2019

    Astronomer by Candlelight, Gerrit Dou, oil on panel, Holland, 1665, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

    Articles

  • Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

    Yehuda Moraly

    Can a clear path be sketched from Wagner’s music to Auschwitz? Can one artist’s work shape history? Wagner’s oeuvre was beloved by Hitler and played in the concentration camps, accompanying unspeakable acts of cruelty. But is that the compo

  • Nightlife without indoor lighting just isn’t the same. The Holy Family by Night, oil on panel, anonymous, 16th century, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

    The Dark Hours – Medieval Nights

    Anat Kutner

    Sleep is hardly the stuff of history, yet medievals spent their nights in surprising ways, as rabbinic literature attests. Europe’s long, cold hours of darkness could make even sleeping a challenge. How did Jews cope? Anat Kutner

  • Curator or Creator? – Holy Sites

    Doron Bar

    After the Old City of Jerusalem fell to the Jordanians, Dr. Shmuel Zanwil Kahane took charge of Israel’s few remaining holy sites. Pitching new pilgrimage destinations with boundless creativity and more than a little nerve, Kahane even adde

  • Columns

  • Quick looks at books

    Elka Weber

    Jews in Medicine | The Promise and Peril of Credit Elka Weber Jews in MedicineContributions to Health and Healing through the Ages Ronald L. EisenbergUrim Pub

  • Book Review | The Book of Exodus

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Book of ExodusA Biography Joel S. BadenPrinceton University Press, 2019,237 pages What can Princeton University’s Lives of Great Religious Books series possibly add to the reams al

  • Crowds accompanying the ashes from Austrian concentration camps as Kahane brought them to Mt. Zion

    Voices of the Past | Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

    Shmuel Zanwil Kahane

    S. Z. Kahane possessed a keen sense of history. Enormous changes had overtaken the Jewish people, demanding a narrative beyond the dry and factual. Drawing on the wellsprings of classic Jewish exegetical literature, Kahane penned myths of I

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