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The site of Masada was identified in 1838 by Americans Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, and in 1842, American missionary Samuel W. Wolcott and the English painter W. Tipping were the first moderns to climb it. [35] After visiting the site several times in the 1930s and 1940s, Shmarya Guttman conducted an initial probe excavation of the site in 1959.
The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel.. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, [3] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian.
The fortress of Masada is called in Hebrew "Metzadá" (מצדה), but Yitzhak Lamdan, although writing in Hebrew, used the name as it is known from the works of Josephus, "Masada" (מסדה). Lamdan's poem was extremely influential among Zionist Jews at the time the kibbutz was established.
As a result, Masada’s significance as a national symbol waned, with fewer youth and military groups visiting the site, and official ceremonies shifting to other locations. [ 24 ] In parallel with these changing political dynamics, scholars and intellectuals began to critically analyze the historical sources, particularly the writings of ...
Masada2000 was a California-based website created and maintained by people from the United States, Israel, Brazil, and Switzerland. [1] [2] It has been described as "extreme pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian" [3] and "radical-Zionist". [4] The site supported and often quoted the views of Meir Kahane, although it had denied being Kahanist. [3]
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Masada Action and Defense Movement, a false flag terrorist organisation in France established by white supremacists; Masada College, a Jewish primary and secondary school in St Ives, New South Wales, Australia
Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s.. Masada was the first ensemble to perform Zorn's compositions inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and written to be performed by small groups of musicians. [1]