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Rembrandt’s Rabbi

Bryna Levy

Back to the article The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel Bryna Levy The Dutch artist Rembrandt von Rijn was not only a contemporary of Menasseh (1606-1669) but his neighbor, living on the same...

ArtEarly modern periodIssue 1 | April 2010Netherlands

The Skeptics

Henry Goldblum

Back to the article The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel Despite its atmosphere of perceived religious tolerance, Amsterdam, or “The New Jerusalem,” had its limits. It made room for heretics, but managed to...

Early modern periodIssue 1 | April 2010NetherlandsWriters

Caesar’s Footprints

Henry Goldblum

Back to the article That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar In the second half of the first century BCE, Judea played host to some of the ancient world’s greatest celebrities. Cleopatra and Mark Antony left...

AntiquityGeneralsIssue 26 | May 2015Land of Israel

Were American Indians the Ten Lost Tribes

Yoav Sorek

Back to the article The Hope of Israel – Menasseh Ben Israel The idea that the American Indians were the Ten Lost Tribes was the natural result of the extrapolation of concepts entrenched in the...

AmericaEarly modern periodIssue 1 | April 2010

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

Henry Goldblum

Was the fate of Judea as a Roman province sealed from the moment Julius Caesar switched sides in the Hasmonean leadership struggle? Or could Herod’s brutal path to kingship still have been blocked? Either way,...

AntiquityArticlesGeneralsIssue 26 | May 2015Land of Israel

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Galina Weinstein

This year marks the centennial of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and sixty years since the death of the absent-minded professor who revolutionized physics Galina Weinstein Albert Einstein was a nonconformist, a rebel, a humanist...

20th centuryArticlesGermanyIssue 26 | May 2015Scientists

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

Zohar Maor

No one captured the modern terrors of alienation and bureaucracy better than Franz Kafka, penning some of the 20th century’s best-known short stories. Yet family, religion, and Zionism also drew him, though all three remained...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 26 | May 2015Writers

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

Gabriel Bukobza

Exchanging the lab for the analyst’s couch, Sigmund Freud defied the scientific conventions of his day. The man who attributed supreme importance to early childhood benefitted from his own adoring Jewish mother’s assurances that he...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 26 | May 2015Scientists

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Ari Ktorza

The cultural meld of Jews and blacks working together in show business gave rise to a new style of American music. Captivated by black sounds and rhythms, composer George Gershwin interwove classical motifs and popular...

20th centuryAmericaArticlesArtistsIssue 45 | November 2018Literature and Culture

Hasmonean Palaces

Eyal Regev

Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist on the outside but Jewish within? The Hasmoneans were among the first to struggle to forge...

AntiquityArticlesHanukkahIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelReligions

Full Circle – Hora

Amit Assis

Though nostalgically associated with Israel’s early days, the hora was originally neither socialist nor Jewish. So how did this folk dance become synonymous with young Zionists circling under a starry sky? Amit Assis There was...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael Independence DayIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelZionism

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Rembrandt’s Rabbi

The Skeptics

Caesar’s Footprints

Were American Indians the Ten Lost Tribes

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Hasmonean Palaces

Full Circle – Hora

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Issues

Rembrandt’s Rabbi

The Skeptics

Caesar’s Footprints

Were American Indians the Ten Lost Tribes

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Hasmonean Palaces

Full Circle – Hora

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