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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

    Articles

  • Building Zion the Bauhaus Way – Zionist Architecture

    Tamar HaYardeni

    How did the International Style, associated primarily with the Bauhaus school, become the signature look of Zionist construction? Tamar HaYardeni Creating a state isn’t easy. For one thing, it requires a clear understanding of t

  • The Soviets’ solution to the “Jewish problem” was to send Jewish masses to develop the Russian Far East. Sign at the entrance to Birobidzhan, capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region | Photo: Anna Yerushenko/AFP/Getty Images

    Designing a New Jew – Birobidzhan

    Ber Kotlerman

    In 1928, the Soviets chose to establish an autonomous Jewish region east of Chinese Manchuria, with the city of Birobidzhan as its capital. As in the other Jewish homeland under construction at much the same time, Bauhaus architects played

  • 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

    • Columns

  • Portrait of a People | The Art of Weaving

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Knotted CarpetDessau, 1929Bauhaus Archive, Berlin Otti Berger1898–1944

  • From the Archives | The Wehrmacht’s Jewish Soldier

    Janne Moehring

    How did Walter Dirr, born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, come to be drafted into Hitler’s army? Clues from a family archive Janne Moehring The curious case of Walter Dirr begins with his father, Robert Heinrich Dirr (

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