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    Issue 60 | February 2022

    Issue 60 | February 2022

    Polsky House, Ramat Gan, was built in the International Style in the 1920s | Photo: Yuval Benjy

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  • Uri Zvi Greenberg had the stormy temperament of a stereotypical redhead, a quality that dominates this portrait by Siona Tagger, who captured the likenesses of many leading Zionists in Mandate Palestine. Oil on canvas, 1925

    Rivers of Poetry – Uri Zvi Greenberg

    Akiva Goldstein

    Few have been as versatile or lived lives as varied as Uri Zvi Greenberg. A revolutionary, anarchist poet who foresaw both the Arab massacre of Jews in 1929 and the Holocaust, Greenberg wandered between past, present, and future yet remaine

  • Dura-Europos predates synagogues in Israel and is the earliest known example of a Jewish house of worship (as opposed to a sacrificial temple) | Photo retouching: Marsyas

    Rabbinic But Different – Dura-Europos Synagogue

    Haggai Misgav

    The people and animals in the Dura-Europos murals might reflect a community’s disregard for rabbinic strictures but can’t be seen as evidence of non-rabbinic Judaism in third-century Syria Haggai Misgav Since its discovery in 19

  • Though faded and unavailable to the public in their hidden corner of Damascus’ National Syrian Museum, the murals of Dura-Europos are the most detailed surviving examples of ancient Jewish art. Aaron the high priest and the Tabernacle, from the synagogue walls

    Imperial Synagogue – Dura-Europos Synagogue

    Haggai Olshanetsky

    Once upon a time in southeastern Syria, the Roman and Sassanid-Persian empires battled over a city nestled among the dunes. Its ruins revealed a synagogue with some of the most exquisite murals ever seen. Who were the Jews who gathered ther

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