A daily newsletter that marks each calendar date with a short look at events, figures and turning points in Jewish history spanning about four millennia. Readers get a compact, date-anchored introduction to the past, with the Hebrew calendar date noted alongside the Gregorian one.
Website: https://dustandstars.substack.com
A personal history newsletter tracing the 1950s handball tours of Maccabi Rehovot to the Netherlands and the lives of the Dutch Jewish families and communities they met. It combines archival testimony, diary excerpts and genealogical research.
Long-form essays on Genesis and related biblical texts, setting them in their ancient Near Eastern context and in the history of Jewish and Christian interpretation. Readers get close textual readings that cover Hebrew word meanings, comparative sources and doctrinal history.
A memoir-driven newsletter by an author tracing his family's Holocaust history and how that trauma shaped his father, mother, and own children. Issues combine personal reflection on Yom Hashoah and current antisemitism with archival detail such as visas, internment camps and family letters.
A braided memoir that links the author's father's Holocaust survival in Poland to the author's childhood in Israel under terror, exploring inherited trauma and family silence. Alongside the personal chapters, the newsletter runs sharper commentary on Israel and antisemitism, with some pieces behind a paywall.
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