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Before Talpiot was built the King of the Winds used to rule over the entire region: and all his ministers and servants, mighty and stubborn winds, dwelled there with him and blew over mountain and…
Contributor:
S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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On a forgone and alien diaspora night,
Far, far in the midst of childhood,
A heavy bottomless darkness closed upon me,
Surrounding me in fear and horror.
Somewhere in Yemen in the district of…
Contributor:
Ratson Halevi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1964
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
Contributor:
Hillel Halkin
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1976
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Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half…
Contributor:
Yehouda Shenhav
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding…
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Avot Yeshurun
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1973
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At the end of King George Boulevard stood a tall building with two black, cavernous entrances. It served as a brothel, first for Arabs and later for Allied troops. When passing in front of this…
Contributor:
Dan Vittorio Segre
Date:
1985
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I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the…
Contributor:
Yehuda Nini
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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It is possible to see the promise of a beginning of Levantine literature—rooted in the realities of the Middle East and influenced by European culture—in Le livre de Goha le Simple [Goha the Fool] by…
Contributor:
Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973