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The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

Levi Cooper

What led a young, acculturated Jew from Prague to seek guidance at the court of the Bełz Hasidic master? What brought this spiritual seeker back to his hometown and then to Tel Aviv? And how...

20th centuryArticlesCzech RepublicIssue 65 | June 2023Writers

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

Noam Urbach

What prompted the first Anglican bishop in China to seek out the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng? And why for centuries were missionaries the only ones to transmit word of these Jews westward? Noam Urbach...

19th centuryArticlesChinaIssue 65 | June 2023Writers

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

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

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

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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The Hasid From Prague – Jiří Langer

The Christian Search for China’s Jews – Jews of Kaifeng

Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

The Skeptics

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

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Seeking The Hidden Face Of God – Hillel Zeitlin

Voices of the Past | Eliezer Ben Yehuda

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Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

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