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    Issue 65 | June 2023

    Issue 65 | June 2023

    Ashtori Ha-parhi on his travels | Illustration by Ovadia Benishu

    Articles

  • The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

    Levi Cooper

    What led a young, acculturated Jew from Prague to seek guidance at the court of the Bełz Hasidic master? What brought this spiritual seeker back to his hometown and then to Tel Aviv? And how was that journey linked to this poet’s homosexual

  • Royal Convert – Queen Helene of Adiabene

    Tal Ilan

    Even antiquity had its celebrity culture, with intellectuals chronicling the lives of the famous. The conversion of an entire royal family to Judaism thus fascinated both the sages and Josephus, who recorded the wondrous deeds of Helene, Mo

  • Lay of the Land – Ashtori Ha-parhi

    Amichay Schwartz

    Using skills honed over generations, 14th-century scholar Ashtori Ha-parhi wandered the length and breadth of the biblical land of Israel, quadrant in hand, resolving issues that had long troubled the Jewish world Amichay Schwartz

  • The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

    Noam Urbach

    What prompted the first Anglican bishop in China to seek out the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng? And why for centuries were missionaries the only ones to transmit word of these Jews westward? Noam Urbach In 1850, a radical

    • Columns

  • Tale of a Trail | Nicanor’s Cave

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Nestled in the botanical gardens on the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus is a small burial cave dating from the Second Temple period. A century ago, this ancient site briefly came to life Tamar HaYardeni Where To?  Nican

  • Portrait of a People | Tower of Power

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel The Tower of BabelOil on wood panel114 x 155 cmBrussels, 1563Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Pieter Bruegel the Elder1525

  • From the Archives | Behind the Wheel

    Gabriel Alexander

    Much as Nazi Vienna couldn’t stand it, the gasoline-powered car was invented by a Jewish-born Austrian engineer. Siegfried Marcus has been all but forgotten, however, owing largely to his lack of business acumen Gabriel Alexander

  • Quick Looks at Book

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    The Sages | For the Freedom of Zion | A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The SagesCharacter, Context and Creativity - Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israe

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