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    Issues 51-100

    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

  • Columns

  • Portrait of a People | Hope in the Concrete Jungle

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Cliff DwellersOil on canvas102 x 107 cm1913Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Geor

  • Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

    Tamar HaYardeni

    A tiny architectural jewel nestled within the picturesque jumble of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, the Ades Synagogue preserves the traditional craftsmanship and liturgy of Jewish Aleppo Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Ades Synagog

  • From the Archives | Herzl Online

    Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hallel Cohen-Orgad

    The Zionist visionary’s diaries are now freely available in the original, hand-written German and French, inviting readers to discover how the movement was born. Surprisingly, not all entries are in Herzl’s hand Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hal

  • Portrait of a People | Expressionism and the Individual in Early Israeli Art

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel   Self-PortraitIsrael, 1952Oil on canvas Haim Apteker Atar1902–1953Ukraine ExpressionismM

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