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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
Date:
1986
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With the first morning light I got up and looked out on the landscape of the Jerusalem Hills. I looked toward the nearby border. One of my relatives told me how the well in our house…
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Salman Shina
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1955
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In late November 1947, in what had once been a quiet suburb of Jerusalem, I first heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I was at the time Chief of Operations of Haganah, the Jewish underground self-defence…
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Yigael Yadin
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1957
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1915
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In the mid-1890s some socialist circles already existed among Jewish workers. The primary proponents of socialist democratic propaganda were first and foremost Jewish workers. In 1897, proclamations…
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David Zaslavsky
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Kiev, Ukrainian SSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Moscow, Russian SFSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1921
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It is possible, it is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep…there is no other place…
—Y. H. Brenner
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Gershon Shaked
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1983
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
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Berl Katznelson
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, 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…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921
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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
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Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947