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Issue 33 | August 2016
Issue 33 | August 2016
Benjamin Disraeli, oil on canvas, painted free of charge by Sir Francis Grant in 1852
when Disraeli became chancellor of the exchequer |
© John Hammond for the National Trust
Articles
Tamar HaYardeni
After dominating the desert landscape of the Middle East and controlling the immensely profitable Incense Route for almost thirteen hundred years, the Nabateans and their fabled wealth disappeared into the shifting sands. What brought down
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 (the last month of the Jewish year, rou
Moti Benmelech
The product of two worlds, New Christian Diogo Pires secretly delved into Jewish mysticism even as he rose through the ranks of Portuguese society. Then a visitor from the kingdom of the ten lost tribes of Israel tipped him over into outrig
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