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Strength in Numbers

Jeffrey S. Gurock

In New York circa 1900, Jewish identity was in the streets and in the air; one in four New Yorkers was Jewish, and formal religious affiliation felt unnecessary. Fifty years later, suburban Jews needed communal institutions - and today's ur

Written Off – Cora Wilburn

Jonathan D. Sarna

Who’s ever heard of Cora Wilburn, the first Jewish novelist in America? At nineteen, she’d traveled the world and disdained its corruption. Clawing her way out of poverty as the Civil War divided the United States, she used her pen to fight

Jewish as Can Be

Rachel Gordan

Are New York’s Jews opting for more Judaism or less? Is their Jewishness nothing more than bagels and lox, or is the growing visibility of ultra- Orthodox communities an indication of future trends? Rachel Gordan In 1946 a young

No Business Like Show Business

Yuval Rivlin

Broadway was a springboard to integration for talented Jewish arrivals from Europe, yet their musicals’ immigrant themes are unmistakable Yuval Rivlin When asked to define modern Jewish identity, Sigmund Freud often responded wi

Ticket to Riches

Rebecca Kobrin

The waves of migration from eastern Europe did not simply ebb and flow. Orchestrated by the entrepreneurial spirit of the likes of Sender Jarmulowsky, they created surges of capital. The trade in ship tickets changed individual fortunes as

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

Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat

Levi Cooper

Though synonymous with Hasidic Jewry, the shtreimel was originally more of a status symbol than a religious one. And not only for Jews, or for men, for that matter Levi Cooper The Israeli legislature has been debating the legali

Torah From Sidon – Lebanon War

Itamar Brenner

Israeli paratroopers came home from the Lebanon War having lost a friend and gained an ancient Torah scroll. The tale of Danny Brenner and the hidden sefer Torah of Sidon Itamar Brenner Israel’s Operation Peace for Galilee (June

Herzl’s Psychodrama – Herzl’s New Ghetto

Yehuda Moraly

Writing The New Ghetto clearly changed Theodor Herzl. Could this forgotten play have been the crucible that forged The Jewish State? Yehuda Moraly Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish sta

Columns

Portrait of a People | Make Art, Not War

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Copy right Churchill Heritage Ltd View of JerusalemOil on canvas51 x 61 cmMount Scopus, 19

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