July 2019 – Jewish Affairs

The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde

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(Reviewer: Marcia Leveson, Vol. 72, No. 1, Pesach 2017) Jules Browde was unique, an irreplaceable asset to our society. Besides his formidable reputation as a lawyer – particularly as a fierce defender of human rights - he had an enormous vitality, empathy and curiosity about

Pogrom, Kishinev and the tilt of history

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(Author: Milton Shain, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) Israel’s national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik captured it in poetry; the Irish republican Michael Davitt drew on reports about it for a book; political activist Emma Goldman professionally engaged with it, and the National Association

The Keidan Memorial (Yizkor) Book) – A New Translation

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(Author: Sorrel Kerbel, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) This Keidan Memorial (Yiskor) book in English translation is a wonderful achievement, one that will enable English speakers to read for themselves the unique accounts of a once vibrant Jewish community ultimately destroyed in the

The Grandmaster (All In The Game)

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(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) The King was placed in a prostrate position: face-forward on to the chess-board. His grandfather stood up, shook hands with his friend and walked him to the gate. Martin stared at the King lying there

The battle over Velvel’s Velvet Yarmulke (Keidan, 1816)

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(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018) It had been a good week for Reb Nachum the Furrier. He had returned from the fair having sold most of his stock and had even managed to exchange a fox skin that had seen

The Relatively Public Life of Jules Browde

Pogrom, Kishinev and the tilt of history

The Keidan Memorial (Yizkor) Book) – A New Translation

The Grandmaster (All In The Game)

The battle over Velvel’s Velvet Yarmulke (Keidan, 1816)

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