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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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Just as King David combined his ability as warrior with his sacred liturgical activity, so nowadays physical exercise done to provide the Nation with strength and the spiritual exercises of the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1904–1914
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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
Contributor:
Mordechai Borochov
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1961
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A dull, rhythmic tremor thudded inside the room over and over again, as if someone was pounding on the wall behind her head with his fists. She sat up in bed and tried to get up. After several vain…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1991
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Greetings 53 year old Tristess, you must have guessed
back then, before youth and old men in fancy cars
turned their backs on you,
how all this would vanish, only Mitterand and the Citroën remain;
yo…
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Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1988
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Toward the end of the 1990s, a storm erupted among members of the Ethiopian community. They discovered that suspicions were being raised about the health of their blood, and that donations were…
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Abraham Adegah
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2002
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On rare occasions Aunt Joya di Pinso would come over, and whenever she came, the house would be full of good spirits. The minute she set foot on our threshold, pausing for a moment, as was…
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Yehudah Burla
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949