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In celebration of Shavuot, the Festival of [Seven] Weeks, the eighteenth edition of the Jewish Heritage Online Magazine is devoted to SEVEN. Enjoy some ten articles which touch on the numeral 7 - as it appears and reappears in the Bible, the Talmud, in Jewish mysticism and in the Hebrew language.Enjoy also this month of Sivan a special expanded Calendar edition.
This edition of JHOM continues to feature Documentors of the Dream: Pioneer Jewish Photographers in the Land of Israel 1890-1933 (Magnes Press and Jewish Publication Society, 1998). We include ten unusual photographs and an essay from the book, as well as an audio webcast interview with the author, photographer and photo historian Vivienne Silver-Brody.
Under discussion in JRGO (Jewish Reading Group Online) is: The Iron Tracks by Aharon Appelfeld. Submit your questions or comments to Mr. Appelfeld, listen to an exclusive audio webcast interview we conducted with him recently in Jerusalem, and enjoy several excerpts from several of his novels.
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