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The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish…
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Yitshak Baer
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1936
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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
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Gershom Scholem
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1937
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Mark Antokolski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1871
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He sings in the courtyard, clad in rags
A small, poor chap, a crazed Jew.
People drive him away, God has muddled his wits
Ages and exile have confused his tongue
He wails and he dances, weeps and…
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Julian Tuwim
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1926
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Our state is young, with a girl’s years, just fourteen. Still without her shoes, as the poet says. But she seems old, many generations old. In these few years, old age has pounced on her. No one is…
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Chaim Hazaz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1962
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Orellana:[To Leber, about to dig into a towering salad] Hey there, you with the Jewish joke of a face, spit one out for us. That should perk you up. Nobody can tell Jewish jokes like a Jew. And now…
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Samuel Eichelbaum
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1942
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The narrative of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah:
In the month of Kislev of the twentieth year, when I was in the fortress of Shushan, Hanani, one of my brothers, together with some men of Judah, arrived…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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I got up and stepped out of the hotel. The early-morning breeze was moist and cool—pure refreshment after a night of suffering.
Everything seemed reborn, and the small-town, good-natured Cubans…
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Abraham Josef Dubelman
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1953
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Saturday, April 8, 1950, 4 p.m.
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Iraqi Zionist Underground
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1950