Simcha Gross

Dec 1, 2024 | ancientjewreview.com | Simcha Gross

As one of the few fora where academic knowledge is mediated to the general public, museum exhibitions are often revealing windows into the contemporary stakes and concerns that underpin scholarship. The stunning exhibition on Elephantine currently hosted at the James-Simon-Galerie and the Neues Museum in Berlin is no exception.

Apr 12, 2024 | cambridge.org | Simcha Gross

Skip to main contentAccessibility help Get accessPublisher: Cambridge University PressOnline publication date: April 2024Print publication year: 2024Online ISBN: 9781009280549 Subjects: Ancient History,Judaism,Classical Studies,Religion From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE).

Apr 17, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Kate Elinsky |Simcha Gross |Shai Secunda |Meir Buzaglo

Kedei she-haMelach Yitpazer 'al ha-Ahava (Rub Salt into Love) Hakibbutz Hameuchad 91 pp., 74 NIS In his new collection, Rub Salt into Love, the Israeli poet Almog Behar writes of the tumultuous movement between Hebrew and Arabic in his family history, inner world, and his life as a writer: This stanza from the poem “The Babies in the Refugee Caravans” was originally composed in Hebrew and Arabic, with the Arabic written in Hebrew letters, presumably for the sake of readers unschooled in...