A family and local history blog that reconstructs the life of Gedulla Menko, a Hengelo Jewish woman who later made Aliyah, using her 1958 Yad Vashem testimony and archival sources. It also covers the 1950s Maccabi Rehovot handball tours of the Netherlands and their links to the Jewish communities that hosted the players.
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Joseph Finlay's newsletter examines Jewishness, Israel/Palestine and antisemitism and philosemitism in a UK context, with essays on Cable Street's commemoration history, British Jewish communal politics, and Torah commentary. Readers get long-form, opinionated analysis that blends historical research with communal and religious perspective.
Der Spekter is a journal of Bundist perspectives, publishing original essays on Jewish socialist history, Yiddish culture and current left politics. Issues pair a multi-part series on Bundism with analysis of contemporary Democratic Party debates, including Israel-Palestine and a San Francisco congressional race.
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