but they all married Jews. I don’t talk about that in my book, but it did make me wonder if for many it would still have been a huge step to marry outside a Jewish circle, even if they considered themselves assimilated and no longer observed Jewish tradition. They called themselvesassi...
After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a women’s teaching college. Comprising five decades of correspondence, the novel skillfully weaves together Leah’s... ...
infamous figures in the Bible, Herod the Great. In Hurston’s retelling, Herod is not the wicked ruler of the New Testament who is charged with the “slaughter of the innocents,” but the forerunner of Christ—a beloved king who enriched Jewish culture and brought prosperity and peace to ...
Their choices — Åse Eg Jørgensen (co-editor of Pist Protta, Denmark’s longest running contemporary artists’ journal), Tatjana Bergelt (multilingual, of German-Russian-Jewish culture and settled in Finland), Thomas Millroth (art historian from Malmö) — are entertaining, informative and ...
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1. Selig: Gottfried Selig (1722-1795), publisher of the German (Leipzig) periodical Jude, about Jewish customs and practices. FROM THE PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR. It cannot be denied that true, wise and enlightened Kabbalists lived at one time, and that some still live. But such do not...
Sixteen pages in, we’re told that Coleman is a “small-nosed Jewish type with the facial heft in the jaw, one of those crimped-haired Jews of a light yellowish skin pigmentation who possess something of the ambiguous aura of the pale blacks who are sometimes taken for white.” This seem...
Bible, the sacred scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Hebrew Bible includes only books known to Christians as the Old Testament. The arrangements of the Jewish and Christian
Salinger was the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, and, likeHolden Caulfield, the hero ofThe Catcher in the Rye, he grew up inNew York City, attending public schools and a military academy. After brief periods at New York and Columbia universities, he devoted himself entirely...
“Commander Turbo told me to expect some resistance as we approached Beth Thera, but I did not expect the entire Jewish Army. We will need Jupiter’s help this day for certain. What do you estimate their strength to be?” “Possibly 20-25 thousand, perhaps more behind those hills.” ...