ranks. According to Eusebius' Chronicon, he severely punished the sect of Christians with death by different means of torture for their refusal to fight against the Romans. In popular culture Since the end of the nineteenth century, Bar-Kochba has been the subject of numerous works of art (dramas, operas, novels, etc.), including: (1858), a Hebrew novel by Kalman Schulman Bar Kokhba (1882), a Yiddish operetta by Abraham Goldfaden (mus. and libr.). The work was written in the wake of pogroms against Jews following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Bar Kokhba (1884), a Hebrew drama by Yehudah Loeb Landau The Son of a Star (1888), an English novel by Benjamin Ward Richardson (1903), a French opera by Camille Erlanger (mus.) and Catulle Mendes (libr.) Bar-Kochba (1905), a German opera by Stanislaus Suda (mus.) and Karl Jonas (libr.) (1910), a Yiddish novel by David Pinsky Bar-Kokhba (1929), a Hebrew drama by Shaul Tchernichovsky Bar-Kokhba (1939), a Yiddish drama by Shmuel Halkin Bar-Kokhba (1941), a Yiddish novel by Abraham Raphael Forsyth (1943), a Hungarian drama by Lajos Szabolcsi (1952), a Danish novel by Poul Borchsenius Prince of Israel (1952), an English novel by Elias Gilner Bar-Kokhba (1953), a Hebrew novel by Joseph Opatoshu Son of a Star (1969), an English novel by Andrew Meisels If I Forget Thee (1983), an English novel by Brenda Lesley Segal (A Star in Its Course: The Life of Bar-Kokhba) (1988), a Hebrew novel by S.J. Kreutner (1988), a Hebrew novel by Yeroshua Perah My Husband, Bar Kokhba (2003), an English novel by Andrew Sanders Knowledge Columns (2014), an American rap song by Dopey Ziegler Son Of A Star (2015), song by Israeli metal band Desert Another operetta on the subject of Bar Kokhba was written by the Russian-Jewish emigre composer Yaacov Bilansky Levanon in Palestine in the 1920s. John Zorn's Masada Chamber Ensemble recorded an album called Bar Kokhba, showing a photograph of the Letter of Bar Kokhba to Yeshua, son of Galgola on the cover. The Bar Kokhba game According to a legend, during his reign, Bar Kokhba was once presented a mutilated man, who had his tongue ripped out and hands cut off. Unable to talk or write, the victim was incapable of telling who his attackers were. Thus, Bar Kokhba decided to ask simple questions to which the dying man was able to nod or shake his head with his