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Odysseus: Prince of Tides
Is Christopher Nolan’s movie fraught with anything?
The General from the Shtetl and the Wizard of the Reichsbank
Did the future Nazi minister of finance and head of the Reichsbank really have a doctoral degree in Hebrew?
Mourning and Real Estate
When dreams of national renewal were hidden in housing codes
Transcendence Specialist
Spielberg’s Sense of Awe
Irreconcilable Indifferences
Night Night Yawn
“The Piano’s Open”
When a remark by Prof Halkin led to a query to Pete Seeger, which led to a hit Israeli novelty song, which . . .
Roald and the Giant Bummer
Did we learn anything new about the inner workings of antisemitism?
Klezmer, Jazz, or Something
Musings on a Musical Microgenre
Sinai before Switzerland: Three Dialogues in the Mountains
Judaism's original hilltop youths.
The Poems and Rivers of Jerusalem
“There are days when everything in Jerusalem is sails and sails . . . the flags, the tallitot, the kapotot.”