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Yehudah Mirsky

Yehudah Mirsky is a former US State Department official. He teaches Judaic and Israel Studies at Brandeis University, and is the author of Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution. His twitter feed is @YehudahMirsky.

  • The third United Nations Assembly, at the close of which, on Dec. 10, 1948, was adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
    The third United Nations Assembly, at the close of which, on Dec. 10, 1948, was adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
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    The End of the World That 1948 Made

    Seven decades later there are still lessons to be learned about history, politics, and human nature from that pivotal year

    byYehudah Mirsky
  • Rabbi Dr. Abraham I. Kook in 1924.
    Rabbi Dr. Abraham I. Kook in 1924.
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    Rav Kook’s Pre-Zionist Spiritual Diary

    An important new publication, from manuscript, of first chief rabbi and leading thinker of religious Zionism Abraham Isaac Kook’s hitherto nearly unknown 1890’s spiritual diary reveals a man working out the tensions in his nascent theology

    byYehudah Mirsky
  • (Photo: Barbara Alper/Getty Images)
    (Photo: Barbara Alper/Getty Images)
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    The Shtiebel

    Remembering the heilige yid of Manhattan’s West Side in the 1960s and ’70s

    byYehudah Mirsky
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