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September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…
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José Bénech
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Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco
(Morocco)
Date:
1940
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To the sacred memory of dear Shmulik and his comrades who fell in the battle to liberate Yeḥi‘am
He rose from the bed shading his eyes with his hands as if it was light although it was still dark…
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Yehudit Hendel
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Merẖavya, Israel
Date:
1950
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Arab Halva—moist, sticky, fibrous. The taste tears across my lips like a memory. Within me Jaffa stirs, wakens from sleep; eyes and faces of Jaffa.
I am there, it is afternoon, a city half-awake…
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Haim Gouri
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1971
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In late November 1947, in what had once been a quiet suburb of Jerusalem, I first heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I was at the time Chief of Operations of Haganah, the Jewish underground self-defence…
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Yigael Yadin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
Date:
1957
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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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This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…
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Elie Kedourie
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1970
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The Jews of Tunis have not been confined to the hara for a long time now. Since the end of the last century, those acquiring a degree of ease have abandoned it and…
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Paul Sebag
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1959
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Among the Jews of Europe, acute feelings of difference always fade with the passage of time. The school, the army, and politics have a unifying force; integration comes about through cultural channels…
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Marcel Bénabou
Date:
1964
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Gilad Ophir
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1997
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All of a sudden the wicket opened and a lot of people entered all at once in a jostling mass, and Daddy was there too, clutching the milk pan in one hand and the iron bar in the other. They had…
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S. Yizhar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992