Simeon Bar Kochba (died 135) led the last Jewish revolt against Roman rule in Palestine, 132-135. Simeon Bar Kochba is surrounded by legend, and little is known of his life. From references in the Talmud, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Roman sources, he...

(d. 135 CE) Jewish rebel against the Roman Empire. The name Bar Kokhba means ‘Son of a Star’ and was believed to fulfil the prophecy ‘A star shall come forth from *Jacob’ (*Numbers 24:17). The Bar Kokhba revolt lasted from...

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Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בר כוכבא, also transliterated as Bar Kokhva or Bar Kochba) was the Jewish leader who led what is known as Bar Kokhba's revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish state of...

Yigael Yadin, the prominent Israeli archeologist and statesman, made an extraordinary discovery in the Judean desert near Ein Gedi in 1961. Yadin and his excavation team found in a canyon crevice a letter signed by Simon Bar Kosiba. In the letter, Bar Kosiba...

The emergence of Jewish theater under Abraham Goldfadn permitted an esthetic recuperation of the Past not outside of history as in Biblical Purimshpils but inside history. Goldfadn wanted his audience to retrieve from the stage their lost memory of Jewish sovereignty and in...