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An Amulet Explained

Chen Avizohar-Hagay

Back to the article Birth Rite – Birthing Amulets Photo: Zohar Shemesh, Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem Each amulet in this set is dominated by a drawing of an animal-shaped angel topped by the name of...

Early modern periodIssue 70 | September 2024LifecycleMiddle East

Birth Rite – Birthing Amulets

Chen Avizohar-Hagay

Prior to effective medical techniques, amulets were a trusted method of protecting believers at their most vulnerable. To keep newborns and their motheres safe, Jews drew on prayers, incantations, and legends of creation as well...

ArticlesEarly modern periodIssue 70 | September 2024LifecycleMiddle East

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

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 Independence...

ColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIsrael's warsIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelPost-1948

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 PhillipsBombardier Books, 2018, 400 pages Celebrated British journalist Melanie Phillips’ first novel...

Book ReviewsColumnsIssue 45 | November 2018

Breakthrough to the Negev – Jewish Settlement of the Negev

Dotan Goren

At the end of the 1930s, the land of Israel’s parched south was devoid of Jewish settlement. In the decade leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel, however, the region suddenly boomed,...

ArticlesIssue 70 | September 2024Land of IsraelPre-state of IsraelZionism

Issues

An Amulet Explained

Birth Rite – Birthing Amulets

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

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

Quick Looks at Books

Breakthrough to the Negev – Jewish Settlement of the Negev

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An Amulet Explained

Birth Rite – Birthing Amulets

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

Tale of a Trail | Kibbutz Tirat Zvi

Quick Looks at Books

Breakthrough to the Negev – Jewish Settlement of the Negev

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