Tal Kra-Oz
By Tal Kra-Oz
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Culture Israel Museum’s Herod Show is King of Exhibitions
Rome and Jerusalem, the birthplaces of modern Western civilization, share an infamously bloody history. The destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman general Titus in 70 C.E. effectively excised Jerusalem from the world’s annals for almost 2,000 years, while securing its place in prayer books. In our collective memory, the two seem eternally at…
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Culture Israeli Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan Draws On Her Family’s Secret History
In Israel — a country almost entirely bereft of homegrown graphic novels — Rutu Modan is a one-woman industry. Her new book, “The Property,” published in both Hebrew and English, follows Mica, a young Israeli woman on a trip to Warsaw with her grandmother Regina, ostensibly to track down and reclaim the property owned by…
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Culture Is It Last Dance for Kaveret, the ‘Israeli ABBA’?
Fifty years ago, Danny Sanderson was a freshman at the High School of Music & Art, in New York City’s Hamilton Heights. He was new to Manhattan, having grown up in a Tel Aviv suburb, born to parents that had made aliyah from the States in 1948. His father had recently assumed a post as…
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