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February 27, 2019

“Medieval Jews and the Cairo Geniza in the Digital Age”

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Recent projects to digitize the contents of the Cairo Geniza—the largest cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered—have revolutionized research in the field. They have done so in two main...

March 13, 2019

"Orange Trees in Blue and White: The Beginnings and Politics of Zionist...

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People think of kibbutzim, socialist agricultural collectives, as the first Zionist agricultural settlements. But kibbutzim, first founded before World War I, were preceded in the late 19th...

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