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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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    My Son, the Gangster

    Robert Rockaway

    New York’s Jewish gangsters lived fast and furious. Exploiting the criminal opportunities created by Prohibition, they masterminded a network of crime that spread far beyond New York and earned their fellow Jews’ scorn – and admiration Robe

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    Z-rated: For Forties Plus – The Zohar

    Yehuda Yifrach

    The secret of the Zohar's allure seems to be in its novel ideas and the challenging concept of freedom that it proffers – the freedom to interpret anew, to imagine, to initiate and develop. The challenge posed to orthodox thought by its sex

  • A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

    Asael Abelman

    Though baptized at age twenty-eight, Heinrich Heine remained torn between Judaism and German nationalism, tradition and modernity Asael Abelman Poet, freedom fighter, and cosmopolitan in exile, Heinrich Heine bore the burden of

  • Why We Eat Haman Taschen – Purim Spiel

    Shmil Holland

    How did a classic Central European pastry become associated with the Jewish festival of Purim? And how did Haman’s ears end up in his pocketbook? Shmil Holland The triangular pastries that developed in Central Europe and spread

  • Topsy Turvy – Purim Spiel

    Yair Lifshitz

    An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures of Jewish society, making a mockery of their authority Yair Lifshitz Reb Yeshaya Priwes was not ena

  • The Gateway – Battle for Palestine

    Yagil Henkin and Anat Stern

    What began as the British defense of the vital Suez Canal culminated in a fierce offensive that opened up the Holy Land to Allied forces. Incredible logistics, sophisticated decoys, and a larger-than-life horseback charge all made this batt

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  • Tale of a Trail | The Underground Prisoners’ Museum

    Tamar HaYardeni

    “Bevingrad” was the highest-security British prison in the Middle East, but that didn’t stop Jewish paramilitaries from lying through their teeth and crawling through its sewers in a daring escape Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The U

  • |Signatures of the women from the Damascus Jewish community at the end of their letter to Lady Judith Montefiore. The signatures relative positions reflect tensions within the community - rich at the beginning

    From the Archives | With Thanks from Damascus

    Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

    Not only community leaders suffered interrogation and humiliation in the Damascus Affair – so did their wives. Their letter of thanks recently came to light  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia On February 5, 1840, Father Thomas, a Capuchin mon

  • Did Jew Know? | Jewish Statistics from World War I

    Segula Editorial

    1. Rank and File Roughly 1.35 million Jews fought in World War I, in the following armies: 500,000 – Russian320,000 – Austro-Hungarian250,000 – American100,000 – German55,000 – French35,000 – British   2. Jew against Jew In dozens of docume

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