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My brothers and teachers: for some years, since I was enlightened by the luminous erudition of our pious forefathers, the rabbis in Babylon and the wise writers from Spain, my attention…
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World Sephardi Federation
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1925
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On the shores of the Sea of Galilee
Lies a palace of great majesty.
There God’s garden is planted,
But not a single tree sways.
Silence; no wave is heard,
Above, every flying bird
Is still and…
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Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1917
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During the century from the beginnings of the Yishuv Hadash [Modern Zionist Settlement] until the present, the competition between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has played a critical role. Although Tel Aviv…
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Dan Miron
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Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1987
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[While the song from the radio can still be heard, Israelsits motionless, in such a way that it is hard to tell whether he is checking a test, thinking, or is just sunk in his place. Later, suddenly…
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Avraham Raz
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1972
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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…
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Chaim Ben-Kiki
Places:
Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (Tiberias, Israel)
Date:
1921
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The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…
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Amos Oz
Places:
Huldah, Israel
Date:
1982
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Date:
1902
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The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…
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Yaacov Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as a Jewish agricultural settlement in 1882 by members of a Jewish nationalist association from northeastern Romania. These immigrants, the…
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Gottlieb Schumacher
Places:
Haifa, Ottoman Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1887