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    Issue 53 | July 2020

    Issue 53 | July 2020

    German print from 1656, showing an Italian doctor wearing protective gear during an outbreak of bubonic plague

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  • Bull headed silver lyre from the royal cemetery of Ur, Iraq, circa 2500 BCE | Photo: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

    Echoes of Sorrow – Mesopotamian Laments 

    Uri Gabbay

    Mesopotamian kingdoms rose and fell, but cultic laments of doom remained a constant ritual. What was their purpose, and what can we learn from their echoes in the biblical book of Lamentations? Uri Gabbay Keening – singing prais

  • The commissions of inquiry found that very few children had been put up for adoption. What became of all the rest? A Yemenite family awaiting a checkup in the Hashed transit camp near Aden, December 1949 | Photo: David Eldan

    Conspiracy or Contagion? – Israel’s Lost Yemenite Children 

    Yechiel Michael Barilan

    In the early days of the State of Israel, numerous infants born to Yemenite immigrants disappeared after hospitalization. Many families have long suspected that their children were secretly transferred to adoptive families. A new medical st

  • Till Death Do Us Part – Graveyard Weddings

    Sara Barnea

    Two orphans are about to tie the knot. But the wedding procession leads to the local cemetery. What was behind this strange 19th-century custom, and what storm brewed in its wake? Sara Barnea On the first day of Nisan, 1909, a J

  • Columns

  • Portrait of a People | Touring the Land

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Tiberias, View from the Walls withSafed in the DistanceChalk on paperTiberias, 1839 David

  • Book Review | Social Vision

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Rooting the Rebbe’s far-reaching campaigns directly in the Baal Shem Tov’s ideology, a sociologist explains why the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s vision was best suited to and carried out from the land of the free Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Social

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