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Issues 51-100

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Orphan of Zionism – Hans Herzl

Ami Zoran

The conversion to Christianity of Theodor Herzl’s son Hans shocked the Jewish world. The Jewish press saw the young orphan’s spiritual search as nothing less than a national crisis. His quest for identity made headlines – and inspired a jok

Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

Dotan Goren

Though founded 130 years ago, Metula remains Israel’s northernmost settlement. How did most of its farmland end up in the Lebanese municipality of Marjayoun? And how did Metula’s residents fight back? Dotan Goren On March 23, 19

Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

Leah Bornstein Makovetsky

Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds of chang

Judaizing Zenobia? – Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra

Haggai Olshanetsky

At her peak, Empress Zenobia ruled most of the eastern Roman Empire, from the Persian border to Egypt. Several Christian sources mention her conversion to Judaism. Yet did she actually convert? And if so, to what kind of Judaism? Unraveling

Fleeing Brazil for North America, the conversos’ descendants confronted yet another new world. View of New Amsterdam (today New York), Johannes Vingboons, 1664

The Furthest Refuge – America’s First Jews

Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt

The expulsion of Spain’s Jews coincided with its discovery of America, with profound consequences for North America’s first Jewish communities. On Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and converso Jews’ first steps in the New World Aliza Moreno-Goldschmi

Nineteenth-century journals regularly included portraits of contributors, such as this likeness of Emma Lazarus, 1889 | Photo: William Courts Engraving: T. Johnson

Lady Liberty’s Jewish Voice – Emma Lazarus

Shira Wolosky

The first to boldly associate the Statue of Liberty with welcoming refugees, Emma Lazarus was also arguably the first public voice of American Zionism. Her work raises questions of identity we still struggle with today Shira Wolosky

Though originally an American Jewish initiative, HIAS branched out into Europe to provide vital support for the waves of Jewish emigration between the two world wars. HIAS offices in Munich | Courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society archives

HIAS’ Helping Hand – The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Gur Alroey

For much of the 20th century, the vast majority of the Jewish people was homeless. Jews were constantly on the move, sometimes in search of a living, sometimes just to survive. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was always there for them, and