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If it forms the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,
Are constantly homesick for, this is chiefly
Because it dissolves in water.
—Auden, “In Praise of Limestone”
If beauty and truth were to…
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Avner Treinin
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1999
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The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
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1980
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Itzhak Refael once warned his colleagues on the Jewish Agency Executive that if they insisted on “regulating” the immigration quotas only the immigration from North Africa would remain for it could…
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Tom Segev
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1984
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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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The Israeli existence is new and experimental. Israelism comes from Zionism, based on the idea of the Jewish people’s return to its place. Israel is a Jewish place. Use of the term Jewish in…
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Gideon Aran, Zali Gurevitch
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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The spring of 1998 was kind to the Jezreel Valley. The rain, which was heavy and late, colored the slopes of the Gilboa with bright green and spread carpets of wildflowers on them—red, purple, and…
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Nahum Barnea
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998
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The debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
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Anita Shapira
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2000
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“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its…
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Adam Baruch
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2001
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The victory of the IDF in the Six-Day War placed the nation and the state in a new and fateful period. Now the whole Land of Israel is in the hands of the Jewish people…
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1967
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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