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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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Man has separated lust and sorrow.
But God holds them together like day and night.
I know lust. I know intense suffering.
I praise God’s one name.
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
Contributor:
Jacob Israël de Haan
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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Jewish mysticism in its various forms represents an attempt to interpret the religious values of Judaism in terms of mystical values. It concentrates upon the idea of the living God who manifests…
Contributor:
Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
Contributor:
Berl Katznelson
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
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Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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And now, good friends, as we observe the adventures of Isaac, we are shaken and stunned. This Isaac who is no worse than any other person, why is he punished so harshly? Is it because he teased a dog…
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S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
Contributor:
Shulamit Kalugai
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Yohanan Simon
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925–1935
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Itzhak Danziger
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939