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I maintain that this megilah [scroll] is nothing other than a disputation of the people of the diaspora, those exiled in the bitter and impetuous [see Habakkuk 1:6] captivity of this host [see Obadiah…
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Moses Alsheikh
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1591
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The tour of inspection on which I invited you to accompany me during this course has come to an end. We must now retrace our steps and review the results achieved by our tour…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1934
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[ . . . ] That sacred foundation, which constitutes the main theme of all this great vision, contains within it a hidden ray of the light of the Messiah, the redeemer who is revealed and concealed…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
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Dvora Baron
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Penina V. Adelman
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Waltham, United States of America
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1998
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In sand and in water
You will yet raise expectant eyes,
Or eyes
As indifferent as death to machine-gun bullets and borders on maps.
Together with you
Yet another sought to escape
(At long last to…
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Noah Stern
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1943
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[ . . . ] Why is fame accorded to this particular individual, far and beyond his own time and place and why does he continue to capture new readers both in the original and in translation? [ . . . P…
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Dov Sadan
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1959
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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
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1949
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Marc Chagall
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1962
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On the morning of the twelfth day, the child is bathed and laid in a cradle with the repetition of the word Beshem Adonai that is, “in the…
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Haeem Samuel Kehimkar
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Bombay, British India (Mumbai, India)
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1897–1937