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16 Tevet 5785 | January 16, 2025

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December 2024
Edition 125

Modern Jewish History

The Mortara case

Bologna, 1858. Officials from the Papal States knock on the door of a Jewish family. In their hands they have an order from the Inquisition: to take away Edgardo, one of the eight children of Momolo and Mariana Mortara. The claim: the boy had been baptized

Renaissance of the Hebrew language

The revival of the Hebrew language and its transformation into a modern language are due to Jewish intellectuals, writers and philosophers from the Diaspora who participated in the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalá) movement, which began in the 19th century in

The forgotten exodus from Arab countries

Jews from Lebanon, Syria and Egypt are the main components of Brazil's Sephardic community. But how and why they arrived in this country is a mystery to most Brazilians –

Jews of Kiev: from the 8th century. 1917 to the Russian Revolution of XNUMX

This is not the first time that Ukraine has been forced to face Russia, with Kiev as the scene of bloody struggles. Nor is this the first time that Jews have experienced days of terror,

The Enigma Ethel

In June 1953, the Jewish couple Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted in a New York prison, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. This tragic execution to this day

THE UNBEATABLE JEWISH COMMANDS

For 75 years the English Imperial War Museum has preserved documents that, now revealed, add a small and exciting chapter to the history of the Second World War: the existence of a troop of

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