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    The privilege of duty free imports from Bruges was the key to Brampton’s rise to riches. City panorama, detail from Seven Wonders of Bruges, Pieter Claeissens the Elder, ca. 1555 | Begijnhof Collection, Bruges

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  • 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

  • Divinely Plagued – Wolff Haggada

    Yaakov Ben-Ze’ev

    Identifying perhaps more with the plague-ridden Egyptians than with liberated Israel, the scribe of the prized Wolff Haggada referred readers to his epic testimony concerning the horrors of the Black Plague and how he reconciled them with h

  • Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

    Tamar HaYardeni

    After dominating the desert landscape of the Middle East and controlling the immensely profitable Incense Route for almost thirteen hundred years, the Nabateans and their fabled wealth disappeared into the shifting sands. What brought down

  • Calling Henrietta – Henrietta Szold

    Efrat Krausz

    From teaching immigrants to setting up a country-wide  social work system, from founding Hadassah to saving thousands of young people through Youth Aliya, nothing seems to have been beyond Henrietta Szold. How did a nonpartisan American pac

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  • 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 | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

    Elka Weber

    Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingby Mos

  • Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

    Yitzhak Klein

    Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. Yitzhak Klein Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 35

  • Book Review | Koren Talmud Bavli, Berakhot

    Michael Goldblum

     A new annotated translation of the Talmud is not just more of the same, but signifies a departure in Talmud study, inviting engaged discussion instead of enshrining tradition Michael Goldblum Koren Talmud Bavli, BerakhotCommen

  • Film review | The Iron Lady

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011   It seems a terrible pity, if one must make a film about Alzheimer’

  • Book Review | Demonic Desires

    Shai Secunda

    The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Shai Secunda Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvani

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