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Issue 62 | September 2022

Articles

Tourists on the Battlefield – 1929 Arab Riots

Glenda M. Woolf

They weren’t partial to either Arabs or Jews. But when a group of British divinity students on a summer pilgrimage to the Holy Land found themselves caught up in Arab attacks on the Jewish population, they helped the Mandate authorities res

The Judeo-Arabic Bookshelf – Medieval Judeo-Arabic

Miriam Goldstein

The swift spread of seventh-century Islamic conquest united the vast majority of Jews under one empire and language – Arabic – and revolutionized the Jewish bookshelf forever. What became of the jewels of Judeo-Arabic literature? Miriam Gol

Agreeing to Disagree – Nahmanides

Oded Yisraeli

When Maimonides’ philosophical writings finally reached western Europe in a language its Jews could read, his ideas met with intense and growing opposition. Though the great Jewish leader was deceased by then, Rabbi Moses son of Nahman took

Jewish Jaffa’s Secret Society – B’nai B’rith in Jaffa

Ilan Shchori

Years before Herzl dreamed of a Zionist movement, and well before Tel Aviv was even a dream, B’nai B’rith’s Sha’ar Zion Lodge in Jaffa was hard at work bringing the American organization’s values of Jewish solidarity, progress, and culture

Columns

Voices of the Past | Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Rabbi Moses Son of Nahman

Two letters sent by Nahmanides to his sons provide a glimpse of his personal life Nahmanides’ scant surviving personal correspondence includes the following two letters to his sons, Nahman and Shlomo (Solomon).  Writing to Nahman in 1267, h

Tale of a Trail | Cave of the Patriarchs

Tamar HaYardeni

Generations of rulers and believers have added layers of construction to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, but mystery still shrouds the original cave’s dark depths  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Cave of the PatriarchsSacred his

From the Archives | Unfinished Business

Gabriel Alexander

A portrait Gustav Klimt failed to complete before his death has left a trail across the art world, but how many know the story of the woman portrayed? Her secrets have long lain buried in the archives of the Vienna Jewish community, where t