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And now, why is it that I ask you, and beg of you, like a son who begs of his father, that you do everything that you possibly can to emigrate to this holy place? If there is no other reason, then it…
Contributor:
Samuel Picho
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1500
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Abraham Rovigo (1650–1713) was born in Modena and studied kabbalah under Moses Zacuto in Venice. Rovigo’s wealth enabled him to devote himself to study and to support pious endeavors. Swept up by…
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Mordechai de Lattes
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1702
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David Wakstein
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1999
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At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should…
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Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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I belong to the generation that celebrated its bar mitzvah during the Six-Day War. Then, in 1967, the surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire…
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David Grossman
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Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Date:
1987
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We have convened this conference for lamentation and soul searching. Before I begin my remarks, I wish to make a heartfelt appeal from here to the responsible people in the Left camp: for G-d’s sake…
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Yehuda Amital
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1995
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The new hybrid rightist-Jewish narrative spread into mainstream Israeli society especially strongly after the Six Day War (1967), when the right began to make deep inroads in both political and public…
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Nurith Gertz
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1995
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On the revolving stage, a shop called Burgermatch, with a sign that reads: “Buy 10 hamburgers, get a free tennis racket.” Next to it, a sports goods store, Our Sports, with a sign saying “Buy…
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Orly Castel-Bloom
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1994
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The northern Negev and the Negev mountain range
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like watercourse in the Negev
They who sow in tears shall reap with songs of joy
—Psalms 126:4–5
More than half of the…
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Seffi Ben-Yoseph
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985