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    Issue 16 | April-May 2013

    Issue 16 | April-May 2013

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  • The Best Defense

    שרה ג´ו בן צבי

    Ben-Gurion could never have declared a state in May 1948 without first painstakingly transforming Palestine’s ragtag Jewish militias into an army שרה ג´ו בן צבי What was David Ben-Gurion’s most significant accomplishment? Most p

  • A Soul Divided

    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

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  • Book Review | Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto

    Elka Weber

    Seventy years after the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Moshe Arens’ book recalls the forgotten fighters who did not live to tell their story Elka Weber Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingby Mos

  • Book Review | Moynihan’s Moment

    ספיר

    Musings on history, alternative history, and theology based on the surprising final scene of Tarantino’s film. ספיר Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as RacismGil Troy Oxford University Press,2013, 358 pages O

  • Posting Independence

    Itamar Atzmon

    Despite the need for secrecy, and with production lines under fire, Israel’s first stamps were printed in time for independence Itamar Atzmon On 5 Iyar – the final day of the British Mandate – the Haaretz daily excitedly describ

  • The Angry Convert

    Hadassah Assouline

    A letter sent by Lenin’s great-grandfather to the czar was intended to make as much trouble as possible for the Jews of Russia Hadassah Assouline The letter below, sent to Czar Nicholas I of Russia in January 1845 by one Moses s

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