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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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CharactersMaenoyakh, an old citizen of BethlehemShulamis, his daughterAvisholom, a young hero descended from the Maccabees.
Avisholom
I shall not leave here until I have rested
Jerusalem…
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Abraham Goldfaden
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1881
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We may assume that the executive committee of Aḥdut Ha-Avoda did what was necessary to explain our position to our allied organizations abroad, the exact situation of the question of language in Eretz…
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Berl Katznelson
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(Israel, Israel)
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1919
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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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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1929
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The slow and green river that winds through
the blanched street of the Jewish Quarter
kept watch over your agony.
From my old table
I used to see him
approach your windows with
restless eyes. And as…
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César Tiempo
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1933
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He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a…
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Natan Shaḥam
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Merẖavya, Israel
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1948
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1948
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Abraham:We only have a few minutes, and we have to decide whether the kibbutz should keep fighting, despite the army’s withdrawal, while we’re surrounded. It must be clear that any decision, one way…
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Yigal Mossinson
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1949
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A State is not handed to a people on a silver platter.
[Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel]
. . . and the land was silent. The incarnate sun
Flickered languidly
Above the smoldering borders…
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Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947