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Chen Malul
Have you come to the library looking for Chen Malul? See that teetering mountain of books that's about to collapse? Chen is right behind it. Hobbies: Reading about history, writing about history, talking about history.
Judaism
Following years of work, we take a look at a reconstructed medieval prayer book used by the Jewish communities of Catalonia, Valencia and Majorca
One of the greatest Jewish philosophers of all time? Or a heretic? The story of Baruch Spinoza
Diaspora
Benny “Bugsy” Siegel hoped to transform the little-known town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world
A glimpse of the Letter of Apostasy (“Iggeret HaShmad”) sent by Maimonides as a message to Jews who were forced to convert to Islam and now wished to return to Judaism
Several months after he was baptized, the poet Heinrich Heine wrote to his friend about the frustration, disappointment and remorse that this action had brought about.
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