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The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as…
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Berakha Ḥabas
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
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1943
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He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a…
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Natan Shaḥam
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1948
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We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…
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Asher Barash
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Kefar Shemaryahu, Mandate Palestine (Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel)
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1944
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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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Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum…
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Amos Elon
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1971
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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
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
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Zalman Shazar
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1943
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…
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Naomi Frankel
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Bet Alfa, Israel
Date:
1967