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14/02/2014 - 13:59

In Israel, too, at that time, the subject of the Holocaust was avoided. It did not fit the image of the “new Jew.” Yes. In the period when... →

07/02/2014 - 15:28

*** That al-Husaini was a radical anti-Semite is not the real news in Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. We knew... →

03/02/2014 - 17:07

In the Fifties, St Albans – a direct-grant public school with a small complement of boarders – perfectly reflected the upwardly mobile... →

24/01/2014 - 17:50

Equations aren't the only hints of mathematics that are built into nature: there are also numbers. As opposed to human creations like the... →

19/01/2014 - 19:13

Сопоставление динамики климатических и энергетических показателей США показывает: уменьшение к 2040 г. некомфортного периода примерно на... →

18/01/2014 - 21:59

After the death of his father-in-law, Sholem inherited a fortune, gave up his career as a Hebrew essayist for one as a writer of Yiddish... →

12/01/2014 - 18:05

Much of the discussion in San Diego centered on what can be done to arrest the flight of young people from the movement. As reported by The... →

06/01/2014 - 16:01

Cohen, a lecturer on Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, cites S.Y. Agnon’s famous line regarding his own,... →

31/12/2013 - 15:25

2. It’s getting hotter, faster In September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fifth assessment report... →

26/12/2013 - 18:56

“My Promised Land” combines road trips, interviews, memoir and straightforward history to relate Israel’s story. The book taps his... →

21/12/2013 - 13:12

The Danes knew long before the war that their army could not resist a German invasion. Instead of overtly criticizing Hitler, the Social... →

16/12/2013 - 18:26

All of this has led to a crisis of representation. Ordinary people feel that their supposedly democratic government no longer reflects... →

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