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Is Your Name Alexander?
The unusual Jewish legacy of Alexander the Great
Sep 11
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Education For All
The First Jewish Free School
Sep 4
3
August 2025
Slaying Holofernes
The popularity of the Book of Judith
Aug 28
8
Late to the Enlightenment
The Ongoing Impact of the Haskalah
Aug 21
1
Music, Maths and Satire
Tom Lehrer and his Mathematical Antecedents
Aug 14
7
The Woman who Wouldn’t Change
Esther Brandeau - the First Jew in Canada
Aug 7
2
July 2025
Pico’s Hebrew Teachers
Why he chose a disreputable one over a good one
Jul 31
10
Freewheeling in Sierra Leone
John Myer Harris’s Dodgy Career
Jul 24
2
Who Was Apostomos?
An unknown character who can’t be deleted.
Jul 17
5
Europe’s Wandering Jews
18th century vagrants with a worse reputation than they deserved
Jul 10
4
Becoming a bit Babylonian
How the Jews of the 1st Exile adopted Babylonian culture
Jul 3
12
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June 2025
Sir Moses and the Shah
I wrote last week about the forced conversion to Islam of the Jews of the Iranian city of Mashhad, I mentioned that it took another 20 or 30 years…
Jun 26
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