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Issue 61 | May 2022

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Gateway to the Mountain – Jews on the Mountain

Ben Shragge

Between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, the Jews of Derbent clung to their unique culture despite invaders, revolution, and civil war. Largely uprooted by 20th-century challenges, they still preserve the memory of the town they

Uphill Battle – Temple Mount: Modern Jewish Attitudes

Dotan Goren

Today most Jews visiting the Temple Mount are religious and of a certain stripe, but when the site opened to non-Muslims in the mid-19th century, it was generally secular Jewish tourists who seized the opportunity to connect with their nati

Murder in the Holy City – Jacob Israel de Haan

Pini Dunner

Though Jacob de Haan’s assassination at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center shocked the Jewish world, the victim himself elicited little direct sympathy. What prompted London-based rabbi and maverick journalist Joseph Sh

Columns

Tale of a Trail | Northern Dead Sea

Tamar HaYardeni

Though the planet’s lowest point might sound like hell on earth, a few crazy dreamers discovered its heavenly promise of health and beauty. The story of Dead Sea Works’ rise from the sands Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Northern Dead

Sporting with History | Against All Odds

Haim Kaufmann

Though the 1936 Berlin Olympics are perhaps best remembered for black runner Jesse Owens’ stunning victories, Jewish athletes’ achievements proved equally embarrassing for Hitler Haim Kaufmann In 1931, Germany was selected to ho

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism | The Wealthy Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative

From the Archives | Fighting the Ministry of Amnesia

Ilya Vovshin

Aaron Krikheli immersed himself in recording the history and culture of Georgia’s Jews just as the powers that be set about obliterating Jewish identity throughout the Soviet Union. One man’s struggle against officially mandated amnesia Ily

Portrait of a People | A Dream Finally Come True

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The LashGouache25 x 17.5 cmTbilisi, 1939Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi Shalom Koboshv