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I have not sung to you, my land,
And I have not glorified your name
With acts of valor,
With booty of battles;
My hands have planted just a tree
On the quiet Jordan shores,
My legs have trodden down…
Contributor:
Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
Places:
Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine
(Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1926
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Three donkeys from Beersheba, so they say,
Plodded slowly down the road to Dan one day.
One brown, one black, one white, they went their way.
The three passed by a minaret, and there
The black one…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Yitzhak Klein gave such an angry kick to the garbage can that it flew straight into the middle of the sidewalk, scattering its stinking contents in all directions. Klein nearly exploded in his boiling…
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Ephraim Kishon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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Plans for the anthology of fiction and poetry now presented to the Hebrew reader arose in our minds several years ago, but particularly the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel was found to be…
Contributor:
Shlomo Tanai, Moshe Shamir
Places:
Afula, Israel
Date:
1958
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You,
blood stain of land on the map,
tired you, immersed in soot and ashes,
forever a small piece of land.
And the monuments are witnesses
at every junction and at the roadsides,
and far, far from…
Contributor:
Ḥaya Vered
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1953
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For Years I Wallowed
For years I wallowed about in the world,
Now I’m going home to wallow there.
With a pair of shoes and the shirt on my back,
And the stick in my hand that goes with me everywhere…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
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1958
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.
Give us the land we have wandered in time
Through foreign parts, far, so far and then,
Every year at Passover we repeat the line
Next…
Contributor:
Olga Kirsch
Places:
Rehovot, Israel
Date:
1948
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A young man graduates and heads off to get damaged
He’s got nothing urgent for now and though they push him around he manages
He has no water in his knees
He has no plaster in his joints
He’ll be…
Contributor:
David Avidan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
Contributor:
Dan Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993