Who was Max Nordau? When my wife and I first got married, we left Cleveland and were privileged to spend the first few years of our marriage living in Jerusalem. I was studying in rabbinical school, and my wife was working as an editor for an English language publishing company. Since we didn’t have a car, and I usually didn’t have patience to wait for the bus, I often would walk home, cutting through smaller Jerusalem streets in an effort to find a shorter route home. One of those streets I noticed was called Rechov (street) Max Nordau. At the time, I had no idea who Max Nordau was, but I’ve since learned that there are no less than 33 streets in Israel named after this man!

Max Nordau was an author and a physician in the acculturated Western Europe in the mid/late 1800’s. At the time, h

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