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Shlomo PereiraThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Was Columbus Jewish? Identity, Memory, and the Politics of Reputation Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? The question refuses to die, and that...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL In the early seventh century, Jewish leaders in Babylonia and the Land of Israel sought to translate enduring...
A TALE OF TWO PASSOVERS: CELEBRATING FREEDOM UNDER CAPTIVITY c. 1500 Passover, the Festival of Freedom, in 1497 and 1506, was marked in Portugal by...
Between the pogroms of 1391 and the expulsion of 1492, Iberian Jews and conversos maintained a tenacious bond with the Land of Israel despite...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL 1504 The Safed-Jerusalem Shemittah Controversy of 1504: A Community Divided In 1504, twelve years after the...