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Treasure Trove: A shard of glass from an East Berlin synagogue recalls the destruction of a Jewish community

This is a piece of broken glass from the Neue (New) Synagogue in Berlin. I am lucky that the Stasi, the state security service of East Germany, did...

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Treasure Trove: Kibbutz Be’eri’s thriving print shop was spared on Oct. 7—and re-opened days after the Hamas attack

“For the life of this nation” is the message on this label. It was made in the print shop of Kibbutz Be’eri two weeks after the Oct. 7...

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Treasure Trove celebrates Passover and remembers Israel’s first vineyards

As we drink our four cups of wine at the Passover seder, many of us will be drinking wine from Israel. We’ll be continuing a tradition which began...

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Treasure Trove: A 1905 postcard from Basel recalls the many Zionist groups and supporters in Toronto

“Greetings from the Seventh Zionist Congress to our friends in Toronto” reads the top message on this postcard sent from the 1905 Congress in...

13.04.2024 8

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Treasure Trove: Strolling along Dizengoff Street brings back memories of a visionary mayor

If you have ever strolled along Dizengoff Street or shopped at the Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv, you’ve encountered Meir Dizengoff (1861-1936), the...

07.04.2024 10

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Treasure Trove travels to Nepal for a Jewish twist on a Himalayan tradition

Tibetan prayer flags are colourful, rectangular pieces of cloth that are hung over mountain passes and homes. They carry messages of compassion, joy,...

31.03.2024 9

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Treasure Trove recalls how any investor could buy their own piece of Palestine in the 1920s

During the 1920s, American Zion Commonwealth Inc. sold real estate interests in Palestine to investors in the United States and Poland, with each...

24.03.2024 9

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Treasure Trove explores how the story of Esther inspired a Dutch artist—to provide you with inspiration for Purim

Maspero Freres was a Cairo-based subsidiary of British American Tobacco Company with a cigarette factory in Tel Aviv. In 1940, it included Jewish...

17.03.2024 7

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Treasure Trove remembers a star-studded fundraiser in Madison Square Gardens for Jewish refugees

The “Night of Stars” was an annual fundraising event for the United Palestine Appeal. This is the program that was published for the 1939 version...

10.03.2024 10

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In honour of the Oscars, Treasure Trove revisits a classic Jewish movie

With the Oscars coming up on March 10, Treasure Trove dipped into its Jewish-themed cinema archive to present the promotional material from the...

03.03.2024 10

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Treasure Trove: David Matlow explains how this stag became the symbol for the Israeli mail system

Isadore Schalit(1871-1953) was one of Theodor Herzl’s first assistants and a main organizer of the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897. He...

25.02.2024 7

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Treasure Trove goes back in time, to an obscure system of Ottoman timekeeping

W.D. and H.O. Wills of Bristol, England, founded in 1786, was the first British company to mass produce cigarettes and to encourage sales, it included...

18.02.2024 10

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Treasure Trove: David Matlow takes a look back at the first Jewish training ship, the predecessor of Israel’s modern navy

The Betar Naval Academy at Civitavecchia, Italy was a Jewish naval training school that operated from 1934 until 1938 and trained 200 sailors. Betar,...

15.02.2024 10

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Treasure Trove: Remembering Yoni Netanyahu, a heroic soldier and leader

Jonathan (Yoni) Netanyahu was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. He was the commander of the Entebbe Operation on...

15.02.2024 6

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Treasure Trove: How loans and taxes helped Israel build in the lean financial years after 1948  

In the first few years after Israel’s independence, it incurred significant expenses to defend itself in the 1948 war, absorb 800,000 immigrants and...

15.02.2024 5

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