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    Issue 73 | June 2025

    Issue 73 | June 2025

    Paperboys on the printers' stairs with the morning edition of Forverts, New York, 1913 | Photo: Lewis Hine, Library of Congress Collection

    Articles

  • Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

    Sharon Ann Musher

    How were the feminist and Zionist aspects of Reconstructionist Judaism influenced by founder Mordecai Kaplan’s experience of raising four daughters? And when the second, Hadassah, spent a year in British Mandate Palestine, how did her trave

  • Progress or Truth – American Yiddish Press

    Ehud Manor

    Two socialist Yiddish papers vied for American readers at the turn of the 20th century. Arguing over both purpose and politics, Di varhayt and Forverts engaged in a battle of wits only one would survive Ehud Manor Jewish immigra

  • Sacred and Profane on the New York Yiddish Stage

    Yakov Friedland

    Yiddish theater enabled Jewish immigrants to the U.S. to tell the Jewish story in a new way. Its formative heroes were actors, directors, and producers rolled into one, whose very different attitudes toward Jewish identity made the Yiddish

  • Catalogue of Care – Julius Rosenwald

    Yuval Jobani

    Self-made millionaire Julius Rosenwald devoted his fortune as well as himself to others. His philanthropic principles speak volumes about integration for both Jewish and black Americans Yuval Jobani Has there ever been a philan

    • Columns

  • Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

    Hadassah Kaplan

    Hadassah Kaplan wrote the following letter to her father in Hebrew during her stay in Jerusalem in 1933, in response to his question of whether she recommended his relocating there  Hadassah Kaplan Dear Father, When I received y

  • Book Review | Promised Lands

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Promised LandsHadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher New York University, 2025, 261 pages   Sharon Ann Musher’s detailed analysis of her g

  • Tale of a Trail | The Store 

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Behind an innocent-looking Tel Aviv storefront, Israel’s infant arms industry churned out bullets, mortars, and guns right under the British Mandate’s nose Tamar HaYardeni Where To? The Store Secret Hagana armory10 Ha-sharon Str

  • Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel InteriorOil on canvas295 x 320 cmCape Town, c. 1930–35Iziko South AfricanNational Gallery,

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