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Late to the Enlightenment
The Ongoing Impact of the Haskalah
Aug 21
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Music, Maths and Satire
Tom Lehrer and his Mathematical Antecedents
Aug 14
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The Woman who Wouldn’t Change
Esther Brandeau - the First Jew in Canada
Aug 7
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July 2025
Pico’s Hebrew Teachers
Why he chose a disreputable one over a good one
Jul 31
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Freewheeling in Sierra Leone
John Myer Harris’s Dodgy Career
Jul 24
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Who Was Apostomos?
An unknown character who can’t be deleted.
Jul 17
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Europe’s Wandering Jews
18th century vagrants with a worse reputation than they deserved
Jul 10
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Becoming a bit Babylonian
How the Jews of the 1st Exile adopted Babylonian culture
Jul 3
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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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The Secret Jews of Iran
A little-known story of recent times
Jun 19
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The Man who wasn’t King
Though he did have thousands of descendants.
Jun 12
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The Man Who Wanted to be Tolerated
Naftali Herz Wessely’s Modern Educational Programme
Jun 5
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