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Dor Ben-Ari
Dor Ben-ari is a historian and tour guide living in Prague. He is interested in just about everything, but mainly Jewish, European and Korean history, not necessarily in that order. He also writes for his facebook page, "Secrets of Jewish Prague".
Diaspora, מרגש
A leading theory ties the identity of the insect from Franz Kafka’s classic “The Metamorphosis” to the author’s Hebrew teacher
Diaspora
In 1600, three scholars from completely different worlds met in the “New Venice” castle outside Prague. The meeting lasted three weeks and resulted in a Hebrew astronomy book, as well as in a lesson about the unifying power of love for the sciences and the quest for knowledge
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