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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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After a long stay in the city, I was glad to go out, to travel as far as the Sharon, full of eagerness for fields, colors, green light. But to my misfortune, I fell into a crowded bus, crammed…
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Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1944
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I had not tasted anything all day long. I had made no preparations on Sabbath eve, so I had nothing to eat on the Sabbath. At that time I was on my own. My wife and children were abroad, and I had…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Hanging her corals on the night she leaves
silent, possessing nothing.
A moon dives, a splash extinguished
in a wall of water.
Alone, just herself, the path
blown clean with white godhead
twists…
Contributor:
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921