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Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Amit Assis

Though most famous as the one-armed defender of Tel Hai, Yosef Trumpeldor was also a Russian patriot, dentist, and pre-kibbutz pioneer of agricultural collectives in the land of Israel. He also cofounded the Jewish Legion,...

ArticlesIssue 67 | December 2023Land of IsraelPioneersPre-state of IsraelZionism

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan

Hadassah Kaplan wrote the following letter to her father in Hebrew during her stay in Jerusalem in 1933, in response to his question of whether she recommended his relocating there Hadassah Kaplan Dear Father, When...

ColumnsIssue 73 | June 2025JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWomen

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Sharon Ann Musher

How were the feminist and Zionist aspects of Reconstructionist Judaism influenced by founder Mordecai Kaplan’s experience of raising four daughters? And when the second, Hadassah, spent a year in British Mandate Palestine, how did her...

ArticlesIssue 73 | June 2025JerusalemPre-state of IsraelWomen

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Shraga Bar-On

Though he saw the Jewish people as trapped in a fatal, dead-end existence, writer Hillel Zeitlin labored to bring redemption. Struggling with doubt, he kept hoping and praying, wrestling with contradictions to create a role...

ArticleshasidismHolocaust|WWIIIssue 72 | March 2025PolandWriters

Film review | The Iron Lady

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s Sara Jo Ben-Zvi The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and CultureUnited KingdomWomen

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Father of modern Hebrew Eliezer Ben Yehuda describes how Balkan nationalism drew him to Zionism Eliezer Ben Yehuda Eliezer Ben Yehuda (see “Hebrew Zealot,” Segula 22) wrote this article soon after the issuance of the...

19th centuryColumnsGreeceIssue 71 | December 2024WritersZionism

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944 Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis filled her...

20th centuryArtColumnsCzech RepublicIssue 64 | March 2023Women

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

Hezi Cohen

Even today, most boardrooms remain dominated by men, but 130 years ago a Jewish woman shattered the glass ceiling to preside over one of India’s largest mercantile empires. A philanthropist and scholar to boot, Flora...

19th centuryArticlesIndiaIssue 71 | December 2024Women

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

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

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Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Film review | The Iron Lady

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

The Skeptics

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

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Singlehanded – Yosef Trumpeldor

Voices of the Past | Hadassah Kaplan

Reconstructing Hadassah – Hadassah Kaplan

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Film review | The Iron Lady

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

The Skeptics

Quantum Leap – Albert Einstein

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

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