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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…
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Me’am Lo’ez
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1764
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Alberto Henschel
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Salvador, Empire of Brazil (Salvador, Brazil)
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ca. 1869
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[ . . . ] For the whole day after I received your letter, I had the same celebratory mood that one feels after a cleansing and encouraging spiritual moment. Yet I am too weak to hold on to it. In…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1916
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[ . . . ] There is, however, a point to which I would like to draw your attention, and that is the undeniable success of our agricultural colonization, particularly our oldest effort, colonization in…
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Narcisse Leven
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1907
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You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
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Alexander Kapel
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1911
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[Same setting as the first act.
Jonah sits at his workbench. Across from him, on the bench, sits Zilberman. Next to the large table, Miriam stands and mends a shirt. The air shaft window is…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1905
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If Tarshish would hand out its gold and diamonds
And the deep waters a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst
What does it have to do with me? And why should I ask for it?
While I am alive I will not be…
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Saliman Menahem Mani
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French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunisia, Tunisia)
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1894
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Jacques Offenbach
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1880–1881
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23 Tevet 5643, to the Publisher [Peretz Smolenskin]!The trials and tribulations that afflicted us in the land of our…
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Am Oylom
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United States, United States of America
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1882
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The fate of this idea of settling the Holy Land with Jews is like that of the fairy prince transformed by evil magic until rescued. The contemporary fairy godmothers of our people deserve our…
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Yeḥiel Mikhl Pines
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1892