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In the grey evening, beside the white house, three old ladies sit, gazing straight ahead. And stillness all around. As if the eagle had suddenly frozen in flight. Three old ladies sit beside the…
Contributor:
Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1934
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In ascetic silence, in stony skirts,
God’s handmaid falls on her face—
Flash of an empty night, a forlorn desert waste,
Shards of sunset upon the rocks.
This land. Trodden, just like this, by a…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Not in vain did I vow to be faithful,
not in vain did I tag at your heels.
With the mole I struggled from darkness,
stubborn and under a spell.
You, grief of the nails on my fingers,
you, woe of my…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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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…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Across a red horizon evening descends
In the breeze treetops tremble and sway
As we sit around the campfire and tell
Of a Palmach man, Dudu was his name
He was with us on long exhausting treks
We…
Contributor:
Haim Hefer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
Contributor:
Reuven Rubin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1923
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Contributor:
Avraham Melnikov
Places:
Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine
(Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934
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Eric Mendelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940–1942