Showing Results 21 - 30 of 78
Restricted
Text
The God of Israel is not rich.
I saw the Sistine Chapel,
Notre-Dame, the Cathedral of Cologne—
You can feast your eyes on them, you can enjoy.
The God of Israel is stingy.
He won’t fill his museum…
Contributor:
A. Leyeles
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
[To Jacob, thinking that he is Esau:] And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed.
“May…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Every day, I ask all those that pass by the shepherd’s tents,
What is all this, why is all this?
Has my beloved had a change of heart, and abandoned his flock forever,
And rejected them, and…
Contributor:
Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
After that I took a rest from medicine for a while. I couldn’t take it any more; my doubtful diagnoses were coming out of my ears. If I’d been a doctor with a clinic and visiting cards and white coats…
Contributor:
Orly Castel-Bloom
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
Grandpa:And here my grandson gets married! I’m so happy for you! cheers! Le-chayim! I’m sure the bride is beautiful…but the most important thing is she should be a good wife, obedient, who loves…
Contributor:
Dani Horowitz, Imad J’abarin, Itzik Giuli
Places:
Jaffa, Israel
Date:
2001
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
When we were the persecuted
I was one of you
How can I remain one
when you become the persecutors?
Your longing was
to become like other nations
who murdered you
Now you have become like them
You…
Contributor:
Erich Fried
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1974
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A crocodile cloud swallowed a cloud-cloud.
All is clogged
and where did the war go?
The pier is painted red and yellow
with the inscription: Tel Aviv.
The drums of the depths are indifferent.
In the…
Contributor:
Raquel Chalfi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
As if you could draw a line and say: below this there’s poverty.
Here’s the bread that turned black in the colorations
Of cheap makeup
And the olives in their little plate
Atop the cloth over the…
Contributor:
Ronny Someck
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1996
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It took me twenty years to love
this hole in the middle of nowhere.
The cotton balls spread a white flame
and there was an ill wind in the cypresses
until for the first time I saw,
with a just eye,
t…
Contributor:
Shimon Adaf
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
War is the continuation of politics,
and South Lebanon is the continuation of Upper Galilee:
Therefore it’s all too natural for a state
to wage war in Lebanon.
Youth is the continuation of…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1978