The Elijah cave is a well-known holy site occupied by Jews in Israel today. But was it always so? A recent study of the cave by scholars and students of the Institut für Judaistik in…
This lecture will demonstrate and discuss several unusual features in this Torah scroll, e.g. numerous final nuns in the margins; corrections in the margins; and unusual forms of letters. Their meaning, and the…
Born in Leningrad to Russian-Jewish parents who were members of an illegal Zionist organization, Vertlib emigrated with his family In 1971, spending time in Israel, the Netherlands, the USA, Italy, and ultimately,…
In "Music from Exile," which debuts at the Penn Humanities Forum on Violence, the Daedalus Quartet explores the music of composers who were forced into various states of exile by the Third Reich. From…
Internationally-acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Shemi Zarhin has serenaded his hometown of Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in his award-winning films. He has now published his first novel, Some Day…
