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-800000
-700000
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- 500000 BCE :
  Flints Galore
-500000
- 500000 BCE :
  Flints Galore
-400000
-300000
-200000
-100000
- 60000 BCE :
  Not Just Cave Dwellers
- 20000 BCE :
  Rhinos in Samaria
- 7000 BCE :
  Masking Death Prehistoric City
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
- 1150 BCE :
  Where did the Philistines come from?
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
- 750 BCE :
  Which Isaiah? How many clerks ?
- 650 BCE :
  Temple Off the Mount
- 590 BCE :
  Stamped by the Mayor
- 586 BCE :
  Signs of Destruction
- 516 BCE :
  Who are You, Samaritans?
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
- 167 BCE :
  A Brief History of the Hasmoneans
- 164 BCE :
  Pools and Palaces
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee
- 150 BCE :
  Telltale Tremor
- 141 BCE :
  Cast a Giant Shadow
- 110 BCE :
  A Dig Full of Holes
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
- 18 BCE :
  Paving the Past
- 0 BCE :
  Nabateans in the Bible Lords of the Desert Pilgrim City
0
100000
200000

-5000
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-4600
-4580

-4560
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-4500
-4480
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-4400
-4380
-4360

-4340
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-4300
-4280
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-4240
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-4140

-4120
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-4080
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-3920

-3900
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-3700

-3680
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-3480

-3460
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-3260

-3240
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-3180
-3160
-3140
-3120
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-3080
-3060
-3040

-3020
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
-3000
- 3000 BCE :
  What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?
-2980
-2960
-2940
-2920
-2900
-2880
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-2800
-2780
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-2740
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-2580
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-2380

-2360
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-2240
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-2140
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-2080
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-2020
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
-2000
- 2000 BCE :
  4,000 Year Old Jerusalem Tomb: a Treasure Trove of Decapitated Toads
-1980
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-1480
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-1260
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- 1150 BCE :
  Where did the Philistines come from?
-1140
-1120
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
-1100
- 1100 BCE :
  Is This Ziklag?
-1080
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-1040
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- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
-1000
- 1000 BCE :
  Babylonian Deluge
-980
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-820
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
-800
- 800 BCE :
  Horses in the rain Ruin of Samaria!
-780
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- 750 BCE :
  Which Isaiah? How many clerks ?
-740
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-680
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- 650 BCE :
  Temple Off the Mount
-640
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-600
- 590 BCE :
  Stamped by the Mayor
- 586 BCE :
  Signs of Destruction
-580
-560
-540
-520
- 516 BCE :
  Who are You, Samaritans?
-500
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
-480
- 480 BCE :
  Esther – the Persian Version
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
-460
- 460 BCE :
  Nehemiah on the Wall
-440
-420
-400

-380
-360
-340
-320
-300
-280
-260
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-220
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
-200
- 200 BCE :
  Forgotten Archive
-180
- 167 BCE :
  A Brief History of the Hasmoneans
- 164 BCE :
  Pools and Palaces
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee

-160
- 160 BCE :
  Fighting for Heart and Soul The Youngest Maccabee
- 150 BCE :
  Telltale Tremor
- 141 BCE :
  Cast a Giant Shadow
-140
-120
- 110 BCE :
  A Dig Full of Holes
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
-100
- 100 BCE :
  אוצר ממצולות ים Anonymous Hasmonean
-80
-60
-40
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
-20
- 20 BCE :
  Mystery of Caesarea’s Disappearing Port Jerusalem Potters
- 18 BCE :
  Paving the Past
- 0 BCE :
  Nabateans in the Bible Lords of the Desert Pilgrim City
0
20
- 40 CE :
  Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale Golden Nostalgia
40
- 40 CE :
  Wanton Destruction on a Calamitous Scale Golden Nostalgia
- 44 CE :
  King’s Canopy in Shilo

60
- 62 CE :
  The Pilgrims’ Progress
- 66 CE :
  Don’t Call Me Joseph Dead Sea DNA
- 67 CE :
  Romans on the Roofs of Gamla
80
100
120
- 130 CE :
  Backs to the Western Wall
- 132 CE :
  Bar Kokhba in Jerusalem
140
160
180
- 200 CE :
  Bathing Rabbis
200
- 200 CE :
  Bathing Rabbis
220
240
- 250 CE :
  Trio in Togas
260

280
- 300 CE :
  Washed Out by the Rain
300
- 300 CE :
  Washed Out by the Rain
320
340
- 350 CE :
  זה השער
360
380
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
400
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
420
440
460
480
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground

400
- 400 CE :
  Blessed Wine
410
420
430
440
450
460
470
480
490
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground
500
- 500 CE :
  Shofar – Blasting Away Pilgrims’ Riches Playing with Water? Byzantine Cistern in Jerusalem Playground

510
520
530
- 539 CE :
  Georgians in Ashdod
540
550
560
570
580
590
600
610

620
- 630 CE :
  The Fire of Faith
630
- 630 CE :
  The Fire of Faith
640
650
660
670
680
690
700
710
- 717 CE :
  What’s a Jewish Menorah doing on early Islamic coins and vessels ?
720

730
740
750
760
770
780
790
- 800 CE :
  Whose Head is it Anyway? Potter’s Treasure
800
- 800 CE :
  Whose Head is it Anyway? Potter’s Treasure
810
820
830

840
850
860
870
880
890
900
910
920
930
940
- 950 CE :
  Cave of Revenge

950
- 950 CE :
  Cave of Revenge
960
970
980
990
1000
1010
1020
1030
1040
1050

1060
1070
1080
1090
- 1096 CE :
  Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
- 1099 CE :
  Heroes on the Walls of Haifa
1100
1110
1120
1130
1140
1150
1160

1170
1180
- 1187 CE :
  Locking Horns at the Battle of Hattin
1190
1200
1210
1220
1230
1240
1250
1260
1270
- 1280 CE :
  Z-rated: For Forties Plus

1280
- 1280 CE :
  Z-rated: For Forties Plus
- 1286 CE :
  Mystery of the Zohar Zohar Unzipped
1290
- 1300 CE :
  Ancient Ring in the Flowerbed
1300
- 1300 CE :
  Ancient Ring in the Flowerbed
1310
1320
1330
1340
1350
- 1354 CE :
  Ready for Elijah
1360
1370
1380
- 1390 CE :
  Divinely Plagued

1390
- 1390 CE :
  Divinely Plagued
1400
1410
1420
1430
1440
1450
1460
1470
- 1475 CE :
  A Widow in Print
1480
1490
- 1496 CE :
  Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Portuguese Jewry

1500
- 1501 CE :
  Portuguese Messiah at the Stake
1510
- 1520 CE :
  Salonika’s Mystic Quartet
1520
- 1520 CE :
  Salonika’s Mystic Quartet
- 1526 CE :
  Who Was David Ha-Reuveni?
1530
- 1533 CE :
  Kabbalists in Salonika
1540
1550
1560
1570
1580
1590
1600

1610
1620
- 1630 CE :
  The Price of Dissent
1630
- 1630 CE :
  The Price of Dissent
1640
1650
1660
- 1667 CE :
  Was ‘The Jewish Bride’ Really Jewish? Messianic Mania
1670
- 1675 CE :
  Topsy Turvy
1680
1690
- 1700 CE :
  Newton’s Fourth Law In the Service of the Czar Haman’s Pockets Trying to Belong
1700
- 1700 CE :
  Newton’s Fourth Law In the Service of the Czar Haman’s Pockets Trying to Belong
1710

1720
1730
1740
1750
1760
1770
1780
- 1790 CE :
  Groping for Truth
1790
- 1790 CE :
  Groping for Truth
1800
- 1806 CE :
  Napoleon’s Jewish Court
1810
- 1812 CE :
  Red Rose of Petra
1820
- 1827 CE :
  A Soul Divided

1830
- 1832 CE :
  Blackface Minstrel Shows
- 1840 CE :
  With Thanks from Damascus
1840
- 1840 CE :
  With Thanks from Damascus
- 1842 CE :
  Charlotte Rothschild – First Jewish Female Artist
- 1845 CE :
  The Angry Convert
- 1848 CE :
  Jewish? French? Italian!
- 1850 CE :
  Matza – More Than Just Crumbs
1850
- 1850 CE :
  Matza – More Than Just Crumbs
- 1852 CE :
  Mum’s the Word Mum’s the Word
- 1860 CE :
  Written Off
1860
- 1860 CE :
  Written Off
- 1868 CE :
  Hungarian Schism
- 1870 CE :
  A Man unto Himself The Kaiser’s Cap
1870
- 1870 CE :
  A Man unto Himself The Kaiser’s Cap
- 1873 CE :
  Boy Wonders
- 1875 CE :
  The Many Faces of Maurycy Gottlieb Shtreimel Variations: The History of a Hat
- 1877 CE :
  Off the Boat
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
1880
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
- 1881 CE :
  The Jewish Girl who Set the Wild West Ablaze
- 1882 CE :
  When Etrogim Briefly Grew on Trees
- 1883 CE :
  Kafka – Too Short A Story
- 1884 CE :
  The Original Zionist Congress
- 1886 CE :
  Place in the Sun
- 1887 CE :
  Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew
- 1889 CE :
  New York – A Community in Flux
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
1890
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
- 1892 CE :
  When Shakespeare Spoke Yiddish
- 1894 CE :
  Herzl’s Psychodrama Egypt’s Jewish Molière The Too Jewish Missionary
- 1895 CE :
  Zionist with Cello
- 1897 CE :
  The Jewish Father of French Impressionism The Congress that Founded the Jewish State The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
1900
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
- 1906 CE :
  The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka
- 1908 CE :
  The Jewish American Secret Police
- 1909 CE :
  black wedding
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
1910
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
- 1913 CE :
  Planting Seedlings Mark Gertler – Nothing but Art
- 1914 CE :
  Did Jew Know? Tomorrow’s War Ticket to Riches
- 1915 CE :
  Albert Einstein’s Quantum Leap Forgotten Jews of Bisan
- 1916 CE :
  Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism
- 1917 CE :
  The Gateway The Viscount of Megiddo Return of the Spies Guard Down Long Before Balfour
- 1918 CE :
  Luboml City Post Dying in Vain
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
1920
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
- 1921 CE :
  Make Art, Not War
- 1924 CE :
  God Save the Dutch Queen It Takes a (Hasidic) Village
- 1927 CE :
  Painter of Jerusalem Breaking the Sound Barrier No Business Like Show Business
- 1929 CE :
  Painting Propaganda
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
1930
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
- 1933 CE :
  Haifa and Salonika – the Jewish Ports
- 1935 CE :
  Gefilte Jazz
- 1936 CE :
  Megilla with a Secular Twist
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

1880
- 1880 CE :
  Fastest Jew in the West
- 1881 CE :
  The Jewish Girl who Set the Wild West Ablaze
- 1882 CE :
  When Etrogim Briefly Grew on Trees
- 1883 CE :
  Kafka – Too Short A Story
- 1884 CE :
  The Original Zionist Congress
- 1886 CE :
  Place in the Sun
- 1887 CE :
  Marc Chagall – the Surrealist Jew
- 1889 CE :
  New York – A Community in Flux
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
1890
- 1890 CE :
  PIONEER POET
- 1892 CE :
  When Shakespeare Spoke Yiddish
- 1894 CE :
  Herzl’s Psychodrama Egypt’s Jewish Molière The Too Jewish Missionary
- 1895 CE :
  Zionist with Cello
- 1897 CE :
  The Jewish Father of French Impressionism The Congress that Founded the Jewish State The Pied Piper of Yom Kippur
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
1900
- 1900 CE :
  Healing Minds with Sigmund Freud
- 1906 CE :
  The Saga of a Budapest Family Sukka
- 1908 CE :
  The Jewish American Secret Police
- 1909 CE :
  black wedding
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
1910
- 1910 CE :
  One Hundred Good Years
- 1913 CE :
  Planting Seedlings Mark Gertler – Nothing but Art
- 1914 CE :
  Did Jew Know? Tomorrow’s War Ticket to Riches
- 1915 CE :
  Albert Einstein’s Quantum Leap Forgotten Jews of Bisan
- 1916 CE :
  Amedeo Modigliani – Jewish Expressionism
- 1917 CE :
  The Gateway The Viscount of Megiddo Return of the Spies Guard Down Long Before Balfour
- 1918 CE :
  Luboml City Post Dying in Vain
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
1920
- 1920 CE :
  Isidor Kaufmann – Jewish Ritual Beauty My Son, the Gangster The Fourth Commandment and the Eighteenth Amendment
- 1921 CE :
  Make Art, Not War
- 1924 CE :
  God Save the Dutch Queen It Takes a (Hasidic) Village
- 1927 CE :
  Painter of Jerusalem Breaking the Sound Barrier No Business Like Show Business
- 1929 CE :
  Painting Propaganda
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
1930
- 1930 CE :
  The Wedding That Wasn’t
- 1933 CE :
  Haifa and Salonika – the Jewish Ports
- 1935 CE :
  Gefilte Jazz
- 1936 CE :
  Megilla with a Secular Twist
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr
1940
- 1940 CE :
  A Beautiful Mind 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr
- 1942 CE :
  Flowing But Not Forgotten All-American Rebbe
- 1943 CE :
  Fight for the Spirit Spark of Rebellion Drawing for Dear Life
- 1945 CE :
  Damned If You Do Lights, Camera, Zionism!
- 1946 CE :
  Escape Room
- 1947 CE :
  United Nations Vote – 29 November 1947
- 1948 CE :
  Posting Independence The Battle on the Hill Sky-Heist Scent of Freedom The Best Defense Cable Car to Jerusalem
- 1949 CE :
  Shmuel Zanwil Kahane and the Legend of the Holy Ashes
- 1950 CE :
  Lost in Eilat Eilat’s Treasures Strength in Numbers The Shrine on the Mountain Voice Behind the Iron Curtain
1950
- 1950 CE :
  Lost in Eilat Eilat’s Treasures Strength in Numbers The Shrine on the Mountain Voice Behind the Iron Curtain
- 1951 CE :
  Curator or Creator
- 1952 CE :
  The Night of the Murdered Poets
- 1955 CE :
  The Hitchhikers’ Guide to Jew York
- 1957 CE :
  Shmuel Zanwil Kahane’s Map of Holy Sites
- 1960 CE :
  Jewish as Can Be
1960
- 1960 CE :
  Jewish as Can Be
- 1967 CE :
  1967 Declassified Comments Through Lions’ Gate De-Classified Comments New Life in Jerusalem’s Old City
1970
- 1973 CE :
  Faith Under Fire
1980
- 1982 CE :
  TORAH FROM SIDON

Ahaseurus

Scenes from De Megilla, the Yiddishpiel Theater performance of Manger’s Megilla Ditties, March 2011

Megilla with a Secular Twist

By Yair Lipshitz - 19 February 2018
Modern Times

In one modern Purim spiel, petty revolutionaries complain about Mordecai’s piety. Ironically, this subtly subversive Yiddish text was originally shunned...

One of the earliest extant depictions of a Purim spiel: woodcut, Holland, 1657

Topsy Turvy

By Yair Lipshitz - 19 February 2018
Age of Reason

An annual outlet for the pressure cooker of the medieval Jewish community, the Purim spiel subtly subverts the power structures...