Israel’s Five-Front, Low-Intensity War
A qualitative escalation.
September 3, 2019
Ladino Advertisements from Old Istanbul
For kosher salami and pastrami, naturally.
For centuries, Istanbul was home to a large community of speakers of Ladino—a variant of Spanish unique to descendants of the Jews who had fled the Iberian Peninsula and found refuge in the Ottoman empire. By the 20th century, Istanbul’s Jews had their own Ladino newspapers. Izak Baron presents pictures of advertisements from local newspapers, some dated as late as the 1970s. These include a Rosh Hashanah greeting from the Jewish hospital, an advertisement for a private tutor offering lessons in French, English, Hebrew, and math, and—naturally—another advertisement for kosher salami and pastrami.
September 3, 2019
The Myth of the Arab Jew
Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.
Paul Robeson’s Unapologetic Stalinism and the Fate of Soviet Jewry
In the end, the death of two Yiddish artists may have finally broken Robeson’s Communist resolve.
In the Campus Anti-Israel Campaign, Zionists Must Be Driven from All Student Activist Groups
Helping all victims of sexual abuse—unless they’re Zionists.
Ladino Advertisements from Old Istanbul
For kosher salami and pastrami, naturally.