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Issue 45 | November 2018

Articles

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 melodies into a black

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 a distinctively Jewish ethnic

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?

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 lat

Columns

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

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 Samar

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 Rus

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

Tamar HaYardeni

What saved Kibbutz Tirat Zvi – and especially its children – from General Fawzi al- Qawuqji’s Arab Salvation Army in the months before the declaration of the State of Israel? Where To? War of Independe

Quick Looks at Books

Elka Weber

The Legacy | The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938–89 | Dirty Jewess | Writing on the Wall The Legacy Melanie PhillipsBomba