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September 19, 2023

A Dutch Jew’s Extraordinary Library, Its Curator, and a Modern Republic of Rabbinic Letters

Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim, in memoriam.

Several years ago, Theodor Dunkelgrün had his first phone conversation with an elderly woman with whom he had been corresponding in the course of his scholarly pursuits. “Her Dutch,” Dunkelgrün recalls, “sounded as if it had been frozen in time, . . . a prewar Jewish Dutch vernacular in which I recognized the language of the elders of the decimated community into which I was born.” He tells her story:

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September 19, 2023

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    Jerusalem benefits from the regime’s weakness, and the American and Turkish presence.

  2. The Abraham Accords Have Brought the Middle East Closer to Peace

    Persuading 350 million Arabs will be harder than 10 million Israelis, but the work has begun.

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  4. A Dutch Jew’s Extraordinary Library, Its Curator, and a Modern Republic of Rabbinic Letters

    Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim, in memoriam.

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