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Issue 48 | July 2019

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

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

Forgotten Jews of Bisan – Beth She’an

Reuven Gafni

Jews relocating to Ottoman Palestine had their pick of holy cities, ports, Zionist colonies, and agricultural villages. Yet some settlers preferred to move to outlying Arab towns instead, founding Jewish communities like that of Beth She’an

Columns

Portrait of a People | Lost Soul

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Victim of FanaticismOil on canvas180 x 224 cmKiev, 1899Kharkiv Art Museum, Ukraine Mykol

Ruins Revisited | Mizpah (Tell en-Nasbeh)

Assaf Avraham

Meeting place from which the biblical Israelites set out for battle  Where? On the outskirts of Ramallah, near the Atarot industrial zone and the Arab village of Qalandiya When? Iron Age II, Israelite settlement period, First Temple, Hasmon

Tale of a Trail | Carmel Market

Tamar HaYardeni

Though the Jewish peddler epitomized the wretched poverty of exile, even prestate Tel Aviv needed someone to sell vegetables. Who plied their wares in the Carmel Market, and how did they get away with it? Tamar HaYardeni Where T

From the Archives | Stepping Up to the Plate

Hila Cohen

Guidelines for the Jewish housewife in the War of Independence placed an emphasis on meat substitutes and avoiding the black market Hila Cohen Once again, the kitchen has become one of the front’s many battle stations, and one

Book Review | Mavericks, Mystics and False Messiahs

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Mavericks, Mystics and False MessiahsEpisodes from the Margins of Jewish History Pini DunnerToby Press, 2018, 208 pages   What do the following Jews –variously famous andobscure – have in common: Shabbetai Tzvi

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