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  • Nesim Bencoya in the Forasteros Synagogue
    Nesim Bencoya in the Forasteros Synagogue
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    The Keeper of Izmir

    After 40 years in Israel, Nesim Bencoya returned to his once-cosmopolitan hometown in Turkey to save its hidden synagogues

    byPaul Benjamin Osterlund
  • Olga Tokarczuk
    Olga Tokarczuk
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    A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel

    A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?

    byShalom Goldman
  • Simon Vrusho
    Simon Vrusho
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    Albania’s Post-Communist Rebirth Gets a Jewish Twist

    A visit to the only Jewish museum in Albania—Europe’s most Muslim nation and Islam’s most secular

    byTheo Canter
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    Sabbatai Sevi’s Conversion to Islam

    A 17th-century ‘holy apostasy’: like Christ’s crucifixion, the fulfillment of a messianic prophecy?

    byCengiz Sisman
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    Stuck Between Berlin and Jerusalem

    What kind of Zionist was Gershom Scholem?

    byShaul Magid
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    Rabbi Wolpe’s Picks: Charismatic Leaders, False Messiahs

    ‘The Mixed Multitude’ by Pawel Maciejko

    byDavid Wolpe
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    Did the False Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Sevi Inspire John Milton’s ‘Paradise Regained’?

    The new book ‘Fictions of Conversion’ explores how religious transformation influenced early modern England

    byJeffrey Shoulson
  • Jews of Salonika repent for following Sabbatai Zevi(Jewish Encyclopedia via Wikipedia)
    Jews of Salonika repent for following Sabbatai Zevi(Jewish Encyclopedia via Wikipedia)
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    The Other Secret Jews

    A new book explores the rich history of Turkey’s Dönme, Sephardic Jews who converted to Islam in the 1600s

    byAdam Kirsch
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    A New ‘Theory’ of the Armenian Genocide

    Can you guess whom it blames?

    byAri M. Brostoff
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