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At 1:35 on the morning of May 9, 1986, a bomb exploded in Amiti Pilowsky’s bedroom window in Santiago, Chile. No one was hurt, although the bomb destroyed a car in the driveway, severely damaged a…
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Tina Rosenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1987
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The widespread eruptions of unrest in South Africa in the 1980s have focused attention on various aspects of that society, including its small but influential Jewish community. That community occupies…
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Gideon Shimoni
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New York, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1988
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In their glory days during the Renaissance, the king’s fools occupied a privileged place at court: dressed in sumptuous garments comparable in every detail to those of the kingdom’s great, in scarlet…
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Pierre Birnbaum
Places:
Stanford, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
1992
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How many Jews are there in Poland? This seems a simple and reasonable question, but the answer depends to a great degree on who is asking whom, when, and why. This should not be surprising: in Poland…
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Konstanty Gebert
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Oxford, United Kingdom
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1994
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The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
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Nurith Gertz
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London, United Kingdom
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1995
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Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music…
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Edwin Seroussi
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Ramat Gan, Israel
Date:
1996
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“Practically everyone has seen the prize-winning musical about the lovable people in that little village in Old Russia called Anetevka [sic]. Well, as far as we’re concerned, ‘Fiddler’ made a goof!” M…
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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New York, United States of America
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2001
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Al Kawm al Aḩmar, Egypt
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 14th Century BCE
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On Sunday, 6 Tammuz, 5681 [July 12, 1921], I visited the author Maxim Gorky [ . . . ] and I told him the alarming news that had come to me from various cities about the horrible pogroms that had…
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Jacob Mazeh
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1936
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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but…
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Dov Ber Slutsky
Date:
1936