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Jewry, and religious Jewry in particular, has always attached prime importance to the rebuilding of Eretz Israel. The Hovevei Zion regarded it as a national duty; for the religious it…
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Samuel Chaim Landau
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1924
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Johannes pushed his cart laden with fruit and vegetables. He pushed with difficulty for his route lay uphill. Automobiles rushed past him, hooting insolently, demanding the road…
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Nehemiah Levinsky
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Bloemfontein, Union of South Africa
(Bloemfontein, South Africa)
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ca. 1935
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It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up.
It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
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José Rabinovich
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1937
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At the last council meeting of the Histadrut, the question of cultural work was on the agenda for the first time. This time it was impossible to discuss only the formal and technical aspects of our…
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David Horowitz
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1922
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From other friends—poets, creators,
who are dear to me always,
I step away today,
Feffer,
and turn to you!
The battles still rage
on our literary planet
but it’s time to consider
the creative…
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Aharon Kushnirov
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1930
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The only garden left in our walled-up town was the old cemetery, whose earliest graves dated back to the thirteenth century. It was densely overgrown. Picking one’s way to its remoter corners meant…
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Piotr Rawicz
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Paris, France
Date:
1961
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And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
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Yocheved Saks
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Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1977
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Luxor, Egypt
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE
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[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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End of 8th Century BCE
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[…]Uncle Herbert was right, part of the time they made them use toothbrushes, for a joke. They sloshed bucketfuls of ammonia and other stuff that burns the skin and stings the eyes over the street and…
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Doris Orgel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1978