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Portriat of a People – Chilling Testimony

bracha.beth

François-Auguste Biard is best known for his vivid paintings of distant lands and cultures. Born in Lyon, France, in 1799, Biard set out to join the clergy but soon discovered his calling as an artist....

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Temple Treasures

bracha.beth

The Monastery of the Cross sparked storytellers’ imaginations, generating fantastic tales of lost Temple treasures hidden beneath its floors Temple Treasures A Jerusalem folktale relates that five hundred years after the wicked Romans destroyed the...

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By the By

bracha.beth

By the By Rustaveli’s immortal Knight in the Panther Skin tells of Tariel, a forlorn knight in love with the king of India’s beautiful daughter. Sadly, the lovelorn lady’s father condemns the match and betroths...

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Film review | The Iron Lady

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Margaret Thatcher’s career is worthy of a more deserving tribute than a film about Alzheimer’s The Iron Lady Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, 2011 It seems a terrible pity, if one must make a film...

20th centuryColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Literature and CultureUnited KingdomWomen

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Shai Secunda

The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 280 pages My...

AntiquityBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Middle EastReligions

Quick Looks at Books

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval Europe | One Day in October Jews and the Wine Trade in Medieval EuropePrinciples and Pressures Haym Soloveitchik Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2024274 pages When this groundbreaking,...

Book ReviewsColumnsEuropeIssue 70 | September 2024Medieval Period

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

Tamar HaYardeni

An American villa, a Russian baron with Swiss and Ethiopian wives, and a tropical garden with trees from all over the world. Beit Immanuel, in Jaffa’s German Colony, typifies the multiethnic land of Israel before...

19th centuryColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 70 | September 2024Tel Aviv

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Yochai Ben-Ghedalia

When did countries begin maintaining birth and death registries, and how does the lack of earlier data limit genealogical research? Shortly after a child is born, usually even before he’s named, the hospital reports his...

ColumnsEarly modern periodGermanyIssue 70 | September 2024Lifecycle

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Naomi Samuel

Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon Adler1630-1709 BaroqueOrnate, mainly 17th-century style of European architecture, art, and music, encouraged by the Catholic church in response to...

ArtColumnsIssue 45 | November 2018

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

Assaf Avraham

Royal capital of the northern kingdom of Israel until its destruction Where? Northwest of Shekhem (Nablus)When? First Temple, Roman period Photo: Zev Radovan And Ahab son of Omri ruled Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. (I...

AntiquityColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 45 | November 2018Land of Israel

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

Denise Rein

Which Syrian Jews begging to resettle in Argentina intended to stay there, and which just wanted out of Syria? The answers lie in the welfare organizations’ archives The mass Jewish emigration from Russia and Poland...

20th centuryAmericaColumnsIssue 45 | November 2018

Columns

Portriat of a People – Chilling Testimony

Temple Treasures

By the By

Film review | The Iron Lady

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

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Columns

Portriat of a People – Chilling Testimony

Temple Treasures

By the By

Film review | The Iron Lady

Book Review | Demonic Desires

Quick Looks at Books

Tale of a Trail | Beit Immanuel, Jaffa

From the Archives | Cradle to Grave

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Ruins Revisited | Samaria (Sebastia)

From the Archives | Not Crying for Argentina

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