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Herzl’s Psychodrama

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Internal Eruption Surprisingly, prior to October 1894, even Theodor Herzl didn’t think a Jewish state was possible. On October 17, reviewing a play for his longtime employer, Vienna’s Neue Freie Presse daily, Herzl slammed the...

19th centuryanti-SemitismLiterature and CultureTheodor HerzlVienna

New Life Among The Ruins – Jewish Quarter

Barak Brenner

With the reunification of Jerusalem, Jews could once again dwell in the Old City. But Jordanian occupation had destroyed the Jewish Quarter, and rebuilding required funding and organization on a national scale. A group of...

ArticlesIsrael's warsIssue 39 | September 2017JerusalemJerusalem DayPioneersPost-1948Zionism

De-Classified Comments

Itamar Brenner

Fifty years after the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, Israel’s state archives released the government protocols and stenographic records from the war. These choice quotations from the Ministerial Committee on National Security and...

ArticlesIssue 39 | September 2017Jerusalem DayLand of IsraelPost-1948Six Day WarStatesmenZionism

A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Asael Abelman

Though baptized at age twenty-eight, Heinrich Heine remained torn between Judaism and German nationalism, tradition and modernity Asael Abelman Poet, freedom fighter, and cosmopolitan in exile, Heinrich Heine bore the burden of an evolving modernity....

19th centuryArticlesGermanyIssue 16 | April-May 2013Writers

Return of the Spies – Nili

Yemima Hovav

In the dark days of World War I, members of the Nili spy ring foresaw the new order emerging in the Middle East and opted to work with the British, despite all the risks. To...

ArticlesIssue 23 | October 2014Land of IsraelPioneersPre-state of IsraelWomenWW1Zionism

Zionist with Cello

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Music Meets the Fields One foggy morning in 1878, as legend has it, four horseback riders cantered out of Jerusalem. Near the Arab village of Um-Labbes, where they’d hoped to found the first Zionist agricultural...

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Blasting Away – Shofar

Ari Greenspan and Ari Z. Zivotofsky

When is a shofar not a ram’s horn, and when can it be heard besides this time of year? The answer lies in Djerba and Yemen Ari Greenspan and Ari Z. Zivotofsky Reverberating throughout Elul...

19th centuryArticlesFestivals of TishreiIssue 33 | August 2016JudaismRabbisTunisiaYemenite Jews

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Asael Abelman

Few famous names attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel, but it made Zionism a political movement no one could ignore Asael Abelman In February 1896, Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). Discussed in...

19th centuryArticlesIndependence DayIssue 14 | December 2012SwitzerlandTheodor HerzlZionism

Don’t Call Me Joseph – Josephus Flavius

Haggai Misgav

Scion of an aristocratic, priestly family in Jerusalem, Josephus Flavius explored various sects in search of his identity. As a rebel commander in the Great Revolt, he defected to the Romans, becoming one of the...

AntiquityArticlesGeneralsIssue 17 | June 2013Land of IsraelWriters

History Live | Through Lions’ Gate

Tehila Bigman

Uzi Eilam’s rich and fascinating military career peaked when he commanded his paratrooper unit to retake the Old City of Jerusalem Tehila Bigman Courtesy of the Eilam family Reserve General Uzi Eilam 1934 Born on...

ColumnsGeneralsIsrael's warsIssue 39 | September 2017JerusalemJerusalem DayPost-1948RabbisZionism

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

Assaf Avraham

If Jewish sources are anything to go by, Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent edifices ever built. After years of painstaking archaeological research, sifting through rubble illegally removed from the Temple...

archaeologyArticlesHerodHerodian periodIssue 39 | September 2017JerusalemJerusalem DayTish'a Be'av

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Herzl’s Psychodrama

New Life Among The Ruins – Jewish Quarter

De-Classified Comments

A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Return of the Spies – Nili

Zionist with Cello

Blasting Away – Shofar

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Don’t Call Me Joseph – Josephus Flavius

History Live | Through Lions’ Gate

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

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Herzl’s Psychodrama

New Life Among The Ruins – Jewish Quarter

De-Classified Comments

A Soul Divided – Heinrich Heine

Return of the Spies – Nili

Zionist with Cello

Blasting Away – Shofar

The Congress that Founded the Jewish State

Don’t Call Me Joseph – Josephus Flavius

History Live | Through Lions’ Gate

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

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