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    Issue 54 | September 2020

    Issue 54 | September 2020

    Star cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933) in his prime. Autographed publicity photograph

    Articles

  • Lessons from History – One Minute to Midnight

    Tova Fish-Rosenberg

    An innovative Holocaust education program teaches students to create not just oral history but an intergenerational dialogue passing on the Jewish people’s story and values Tova Fish-Rosenberg Seventeen years ago, as a day schoo

  • Knightly armor was supposed to indicate high birth – but Brampton’s case was probably not the only exception. The Black Prince, Edward, prince of Wales, hero of England’s initial successes in the Hundred Years War, illustration from Charles Knight’s Old England – A Pictorial Museum, 1760

    Breaking the Mold – Edward Brampton

    Haggai Olshanetsky

    A mariner, a knight, the governor of the Isle of Guernsey, and a nobleman with influence at the English and the Portuguese courts – Edward Brampton, the son of a Jewish blacksmith, defied the so-called strict hierarchy of late medieval soci

  • Jewish celebrities of the cantors’ golden age. Cantor Mordechai Hershman

    Shul or Show? – Golden Age of Cantors 

    David Olivestone

    The huge popularity of cantorial concerts and records during the first half of the 20th century turned the most talented cantors into celebrities. But did they cross the line from prayer to entertainment? David Olivestone A cent

  • He gave his all for Tel Aviv – and insisted on his due. Meir Dizengoff riding at the head of the Tel Aviv Purim parade, 1934 | Photo: Zoltan Kluger, Israel Government Press Office

    The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff 

    Ilan Shchori

    While pioneers enthused over each new furrow plowed, Meir Dizengoff put his heart and soul into building and running the first new Jewish city in millennia – inspired not by the patriarchs, but by the French Riviera Ilan Shchori

  • The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur – A Lubavitch Tale

    Levi Cooper

    Variations on a Hasidic story may reveal the fears and doubts of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Schneersohn, who led Chabad through Stalin’s persecutions and two world wars, transplanted it in America, and transformed his

    • Columns

  • Tale of a Trail | Muhraka

    Tamar HaYardeni

    How did the statue of Elijah in the Carmelite monastery on Keren Carmel lose its arm, then regain it? Of Scripture and sculpture Tamar HaYardeni Where To? MuhrakaStatue of Elijah at Keren Carmel Monastery

  • Voices of the Past | Salomon Steinberger

    Salomon Steinberger

    Salomon Steinberger was the cantor of a major Frankfurt synagogue for thirty years, until he fled to England in 1939. Having studied in the prestigious Pressburg Yeshiva (then located in today’s Bratislava, Slovakia) while Yossele Rosenblat

  • Critics | Fighting on Different Fronts

    Elka Weber

    Hollywood contemporaries Irving Berlin and Ben Hecht lived vastly different Jewish lives, with posterity predictably rewarding the politically correct Berlin and relegating Hecht to relative obscurity Elka Weber Ben Hecht: Figh

  • From the Archives | Prophecy or Plan?

    Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

    In the early 1960s, a young teacher named Adin Steinsaltz gave a lecture envisioning a Hasidic revival in Israel. Today, his words seem prophetic – but they were simply a personal plan of action  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia In the State

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