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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

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

Gabriel Bukobza

Exchanging the lab for the analyst’s couch, Sigmund Freud defied the scientific conventions of his day. The man who attributed supreme importance to early childhood benefitted from his own adoring Jewish mother’s assurances that he...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 26 | May 2015Scientists

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Ari Ktorza

The cultural meld of Jews and blacks working together in show business gave rise to a new style of American music. Captivated by black sounds and rhythms, composer George Gershwin interwove classical motifs and popular...

20th centuryAmericaArticlesArtistsIssue 45 | November 2018Literature and Culture

Hasmonean Palaces

Eyal Regev

Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist on the outside but Jewish within? The Hasmoneans were among the first to struggle to forge...

AntiquityArticlesHanukkahIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelReligions

Full Circle – Hora

Amit Assis

Though nostalgically associated with Israel’s early days, the hora was originally neither socialist nor Jewish. So how did this folk dance become synonymous with young Zionists circling under a starry sky? There was no road...

20th centuryArticlesIsrael Independence DayIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelZionism

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Yemima Hovav

A Jewish money changer disappears one fine day in Hamburg, never to be heard of again. Three years later, another one vanishes. Only one woman connected the two events and dared to seek justice The...

ArticlesEarly modern periodEuropeGermanyIssue 45 | November 2018

Evasive Action – Building the Second Temple

Yaakov Medan

The Second Temple was begun with a building permit from the Persian empire, but when it was rescinded the exiles found creative ways to continue construction. The "illegal" building they erected inspired later generations in...

AntiquityArticlesIssue 1 | April 2010JerusalemPurim

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

Daphna Yizrael

Once a Jewish hub with an international ambiance, now a Ukrainian provincial capital: a group of Israeli youths searching for the vestiges of Czernowitz’s Jewish glory found spectacular murals in what is today an Evangelical...

20th centuryArticlesEuropeIssue 1 | April 2010Ukraine

Tel Aviv’s Unsung Heroes

Nir Mann

"Tel Aviv is at the flicks", mocks the song from 1948, describing the functioning of the first Hebrew city during the War of Independence. But the reality was quite different: Tel Aviv, the heart of...

ArticlesIsrael Independence DayIssue 1 | April 2010Land of IsraelPost-1948

Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Stepping into the world of Shlomo Moussaieff's antiquities collection at his home in Herzliya is more like walking into a magical Aladdin's cave than a neatly categorized museum. His fascinating – and controversial – collection...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 1 | April 2010Land of IsraelMiddle East

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

Nir Rachkovsky

Rappelling to access hidden passages within the depths of the Te'omim cave, archeologists discovered a treasure trove of coins from the Bar Kokhba revolt. The greatest surprise was one peruta, a small bronze coin minted...

AntiquityArticlesHolidaysIssue 1 | April 2010Lag B'OmerLand of IsraelMiddle East

Articles

Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Hasmonean Palaces

Full Circle – Hora

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Evasive Action – Building the Second Temple

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

Tel Aviv’s Unsung Heroes

Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

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Too Short A Story – Franz Kafka

Healing Minds – Sigmund Freud

George Gershwin – Gefilte Jazz

Hasmonean Palaces

Full Circle – Hora

Murder in Hamburg – The Missing Money Changers

Evasive Action – Building the Second Temple

Back to Czernowitz – Uncovering Jewish Culture

Tel Aviv’s Unsung Heroes

Shlomo Moussaieff’s Antiquities – Solomon’s Treasures

Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique

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