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Orphan of Zionism – Hans Herzl

Ami Zoran

The conversion to Christianity of Theodor Herzl’s son Hans shocked the Jewish world. The Jewish press saw the young orphan’s spiritual search as nothing less than a national crisis. His quest for identity made headlines – and inspired a jok

Lost to Lebanon – Metula’s Lebanese Fields

Dotan Goren

Though founded 130 years ago, Metula remains Israel’s northernmost settlement. How did most of its farmland end up in the Lebanese municipality of Marjayoun? And how did Metula’s residents fight back? Dotan Goren On March 23, 19

Aleppo’s Crown Jewels – Aleppo’s Jews

Leah Bornstein Makovetsky

Aleppo’s Jewish community was famous for two things: its trading acumen and its biblical codex. Among its sharpest financial minds and its scholars’ most generous supporters were the Francos, Italian merchants who brought the winds of chang

Columns

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

People Love Dead Jews | The Letters Project | Abraham Joshua Heschel Sara Jo Ben-Zvi People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Dara HornW. W. Nort

Book Review | Late Ancient Jews and Judaism

Haggai Olshanetsky

Haggai Olshanetsky A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: 3rd Century BCE–7th Century CE Edited by Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Gwynn KesslerWiley Blackwell, 2020, 560 pages   An important addition to the academic bookshelf,

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Karl Marx | The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion | Esther in America Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Karl Marx Shlomo AvineriYale University Press, 2019, 240 pages  

A Day at the Museum | ANU

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

The reborn Museum of the Diaspora has a new name, a new narrative, and a new purpose Sara Jo Ben-Zvi courtesy of ANU Museum of the Jewish People ANUMuseum of the Jewish People Tel Aviv University Campus   Museums have long ceas

Portrait of a People | Hope in the Concrete Jungle

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Cliff DwellersOil on canvas102 x 107 cm1913Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Geor

Tale of a Trail | Ades Synagogue

Tamar HaYardeni

A tiny architectural jewel nestled within the picturesque jumble of Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood, the Ades Synagogue preserves the traditional craftsmanship and liturgy of Jewish Aleppo Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Ades Synagog

From the Archives | Herzl Online

Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hallel Cohen-Orgad

The Zionist visionary’s diaries are now freely available in the original, hand-written German and French, inviting readers to discover how the movement was born. Surprisingly, not all entries are in Herzl’s hand Suzanne Berns and Ayelet Hal

Portrait of a People | Expressionism and the Individual in Early Israeli Art

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel   Self-PortraitIsrael, 1952Oil on canvas Haim Apteker Atar1902–1953Ukraine ExpressionismM