Eliezer Aryeh
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Eliezer Aryeh
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Writing on Jewish history, biblical studies & historical misconceptions | Ancient to medieval, purity systems to mysticism | eliezeraryeh.substack.com | r/AskHistorians contributor
Molly Crabapple's new Bund book cites Polish arms training to three militias in the 1930s. One of them didn't exist until 1940. Her own cited source confirms this; and that's just the first error.

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What the Footnotes Don’t Say: Here Where We Live Is Our Country gets the Bund right and Palestine wrong
The Credibility Earned in Vilna Is Spent in Haifa
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May 29, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but not Yom HaShoah, the Jewish commemoration established decades earlier.

Even the date of Holocaust memory was de-Judaized.
Fitting day to publish Part 3: The Scapegoat: How Jews Became Everyone's Problem

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The Scapegoat: How Jews Became Everyone's Problem
America 2000-Present
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January 27, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The Myth of WWII Saviorism: How America Rewrote Its Own Antisemitic Past into a Story of Moral Heroism.

Before WWII, Jews faced exclusion.
After WWII, Americans had tales of Jewish redemption.

#History #Judaism #WWII #Antisemitism

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The American Mirror: Jews, Race, and the Uses of Memory
Part 1 – The Racial Problem: Jews Before and During WWII
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January 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM
A readable synthesis of modern scholarship on Jewish outreach, “God-fearers,” and why Judaism wasn’t a proselytizing religion in the Greco-Roman world.

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#Judaism #AncientHistory #HistoryOfReligion
Jewish Mission and the God-Fearers
How Modern Scholarship Overturned a Century of Misunderstanding About Ancient Jewish Outreach
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December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Just answered with a historical breakdown on r/AskHistorians about medieval Jewish-Christian economic relations and why popular fiction gets it wrong.

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#medievalhistory #JewishHistory
How important was the relationship between Christians and Jews with regards to commerce in the 13th century?
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December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Why Levitical purity isn't equal to sin, why Qumran doubled down, and how Christianity rewrote the categories.
Priestly logic, Qumran, rabbinic shifts, and where later readers went off-track

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#HebrewBible #AncientJudaism #DeadSeaScrolls #BiblicalStudies
https://eliezeraryeh.substack.com/p/recovering-the-lost-logic-of-biblical-purity”
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM