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The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Ilan Shchori

While pioneers enthused over each new furrow plowed, Meir Dizengoff put his heart and soul into building and running the first new Jewish city in millennia – inspired not by the patriarchs, but by the...

ArticlesIssue 54 | September 2020

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Tamar HaYardeni

From ancient geological wonder to crocodile spa, Hamat Gader has gone through many incarnations and as many hands. Despite its pagan statues, its hot springs drew even the Talmudic sages Tamar HaYardeni Where To? Hamat...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Vladimir Lenin in SmolnyOil on canvas190 x 287 cm1930New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky1884-1939 Socialist RealismThisgenre generally refers to the formallyrealistic, thematically artificial style of painting emerging in Russiafollowing the Communist Revolution...

ColumnsIssue 56 | March 2021

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

Netanel Lederberg

The horrors of imprisonment in czarist and Stalinist Russia were seared into the memory of all who survived their sentences. Few, however, celebrated their release as joyously as the Lubavitcher rebbes, whose followers mark these...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

Menachem Keren-Kratz

The city that never sleeps might now epitomize secular Israel, but for decades it was the country’s Hasidic capital – and Zionist too! Menachem Keren-Kratz Shoppers on Tel Aviv’s fashionable Shenkin Street and high-tech workers...

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The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Ze’ev Kitsis

Change followed swiftly in the wake of the railway, making the steam engine’s power and speed synonymous with modernity. Yet the ostensibly conservative Hasidic movement eagerly embraced the noisy, crowded carriages of train travel. New...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Yehuda Moraly

Can a clear path be sketched from Wagner’s music to Auschwitz? Can one artist’s work shape history? Wagner’s oeuvre was beloved by Hitler and played in the concentration camps, accompanying unspeakable acts of cruelty. But...

ArticlesIssue 48 | July 2019

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

Roee Horen

Hasidism’s emergence at the dawn of modernity – and the movement’s subsequent, unprecedented success – can be attributed to Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov’s skillful use of surprising sources to weave innovation into the fabric...

ArticlesIssue 56 | March 2021

The Dark Hours – Medieval Nights

Anat Kutner

Sleep is hardly the stuff of history, yet medievals spent their nights in surprising ways, as rabbinic literature attests. Europe’s long, cold hours of darkness could make even sleeping a challenge. How did Jews cope?...

ArticlesIssue 48 | July 2019

Counting the Hours – Measuring Time

Eshbal Ratzon

Way back when man began marking time, the natural unit of choice was the day. When did people begin breaking days into hours, and why were some hours longer than others? And if an Egyptian,...

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Zionist History by Numbers – Israeli Immigration

Hizky Shoham

The waves of Jewish immigration to land of Israel in the 19th and early 20th centuries are known as the First Aliya, the Second, and so on. But did these numbers always mean what they...

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Issues

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

The Dark Hours – Medieval Nights

Counting the Hours – Measuring Time

Zionist History by Numbers – Israeli Immigration

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Issues

The Sheriff of Tel Aviv – Meir Dizengoff

Tale of a Trail | Hamat Gader

Portrait of a People | Lonely at the Top

Festivals of Freedom – Jailed Chabad Leaders

Tel Aviv’s Not-So-Black Hats – Hasidic Tel Aviv

The Hasidic Track – Hasidic Train Line

Wagner’s Heir? – Wagner and Hitler

Old Sparks, New Vessels – Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

The Dark Hours – Medieval Nights

Counting the Hours – Measuring Time

Zionist History by Numbers – Israeli Immigration

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