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    Issues 51-100

    Issues 51-100

    In whatever capacity he served, Levi Eshkol consistently prioritized water projects. Levi Eshkol | Courtesy of Yad Levi Eshkol

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  • The Soviets’ solution to the “Jewish problem” was to send Jewish masses to develop the Russian Far East. Sign at the entrance to Birobidzhan, capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region | Photo: Anna Yerushenko/AFP/Getty Images

    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

  • Uri Zvi Greenberg had the stormy temperament of a stereotypical redhead, a quality that dominates this portrait by Siona Tagger, who captured the likenesses of many leading Zionists in Mandate Palestine. Oil on canvas, 1925

    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

  • Dura-Europos predates synagogues in Israel and is the earliest known example of a Jewish house of worship (as opposed to a sacrificial temple) | Photo retouching: Marsyas

    Rabbinic But Different – Dura-Europos Synagogue

    Haggai Misgav

    The people and animals in the Dura-Europos murals might reflect a community’s disregard for rabbinic strictures but can’t be seen as evidence of non-rabbinic Judaism in third-century Syria Haggai Misgav Since its discovery in 19

  • Though faded and unavailable to the public in their hidden corner of Damascus’ National Syrian Museum, the murals of Dura-Europos are the most detailed surviving examples of ancient Jewish art. Aaron the high priest and the Tabernacle, from the synagogue walls

    Imperial Synagogue – Dura-Europos Synagogue

    Haggai Olshanetsky

    Once upon a time in southeastern Syria, the Roman and Sassanid-Persian empires battled over a city nestled among the dunes. Its ruins revealed a synagogue with some of the most exquisite murals ever seen. Who were the Jews who gathered ther

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  • 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

  • From the Archives | From Morocco to Amsterdam

    Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

    The memoir of an anonymous scholar features miracles, mishaps, and multiple wives as his thirst for Jewish learning drives him from home  Yochai Ben-Ghedalia Highly Respected Professor, This copy, which I made in my student day

  • Portrait of a People | A Fleeting Guest

    Naomi Samuel

    Naomi Samuel Jewish Wedding in MoroccoOil on canvas140 x 105 cmParis, 1839Louvres Museum, Paris Eugène

  • Quick Looks at Books

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    Medicine: From Biblical Canaan to Modern Israel | Cities of Splendour in the Shaping of Sephardi History | Memorable Sephardi Voices | Contextualizing Jewish Temples Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

  • Tale of a Trail | Khirbet Bak, Mount Meron

    Tamar HaYardeni

    Israel Bak wasn’t one to give up. The first printer in Ottoman Palestine, he also established an agricultural village on Mount Meron in a series of none-too-successful pioneering endeavors  Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Khirbet Bak,

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