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Why Is This Passover Different? – Ethiopian Pesach

Sharon Shalom

How does Ethiopian Jewry’s observance of Pesach differ from that of most Jews, and why? Are these differences a function of this community’s historic isolation or a matter of principle? And what can they teach us about the nature of Jewish

Building Zion the Bauhaus Way – Zionist Architecture

Tamar HaYardeni

How did the International Style, associated primarily with the Bauhaus school, become the signature look of Zionist construction? Tamar HaYardeni Creating a state isn’t easy. For one thing, it requires a clear understanding of t

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

Designing a New Jew – Birobidzhan

Ber Kotlerman

In 1928, the Soviets chose to establish an autonomous Jewish region east of Chinese Manchuria, with the city of Birobidzhan as its capital. As in the other Jewish homeland under construction at much the same time, Bauhaus architects played

Rivers of Poetry – Uri Zvi Greenberg

Akiva Goldstein

Few have been as versatile or lived lives as varied as Uri Zvi Greenberg. A revolutionary, anarchist poet who foresaw both the Arab massacre of Jews in 1929 and the Holocaust, Greenberg wandered between past, present, and future yet remaine

Columns

Tale of a Trail | Mikveh Israel

Tamar HaYardeni

Jules Védrines was the first to fly to the Holy Land, though he skipped Jerusalem. But what made the famous pilot miss his designated landing at Mikveh Israel? Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Mikveh IsraelThe temporary landing strip b

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