This week in Jewish history: The Dreyfus Affair and birth of Zionism
Birthday of Brian Josephson, a Welsh theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and ...
Cambridge University Press2 个月
The Cambridge Companion to the Book of Isaiah
“The Book of Isaiah and the Neo-Babylonian Period” by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer investigates the “black hole” in the book that is the Babylonian Exile from three perspectives. First, it analyzes how the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs1 个月
Fall of Assad revives interest in Judeo-Syrian Arabic, Syria’s nearly lost Jewish dialect
The Jewish community of Syria has ancient roots, tracing back to the Babylonian exile in 586 BCE. Over time, Jews adapted the Arabic dialects of their neighbors, but Judeo-Syrian Arabic stood ...
Arutz Sheva9 天
The darkness of Yavan lives on for us to overcome with light
It refers to the four exiles that the Jewish people would go through subsequent to the exile in Egypt. The first exile was the Babylonian exile which followed the destruction of the first Temple.
Cambridge University Press1 个月
Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity
This book combines an engaging prose style, methodological rigor, and creative insight, to recreates a previously unknown world of Christian-Jewish polemics in Babylonia. These dialogues come alive ...
来自MSN29 天
Powerful new documentary uncovers the ‘Untold Story of Iraq’s Jews’
"The Jewish community in Iraq, with its ancient roots dating back to the Babylonian exile, contributed enormously to the culture, economy and life of the country. Their story is an integral part ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency7 年
Israeli Cabinet meets in Western Wall tunnels, approves Old City elevator
In this place, the Babylonian exile built the Second Temple and after ... the Cabinet approved a plan to build an elevator from Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall that would allow ...