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Shepherds and their flocks were scattered on the rocky hillsides, among the woods of low terebinth and the stretches of wild rose, and even along the swirling contours of valleys foaming with light…
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S. Yizhar
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Merẖavya, Israel
Date:
1948
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Jimmy’s body was taken to Har Tuv, where the doctor confirmed his death, and from Har Tuv it was taken to the morgue in the hospital in the convent of Abu Gosh. He lay there, covered with a gray…
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Menahem Shemi
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1952
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
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Dan Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
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I was born in Tunisia, in Tunis, a few steps from that city’s large ghetto. My father, a harness maker, was somewhat pious, naturally somewhat so, as were all men of his trade and his station in life…
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Albert Memmi
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Paris, France)
Date:
1962
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Yesterday morning Roi was murdered. He was lulled by the quiet of the spring morning and did not notice those lying in wait in the furrow.
Today, let us not cast aspersions at the murderers. How can…
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Moshe Dayan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1956
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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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My own efforts to wrestle with the Ishmael story came from my fierce fears and hopes for modern Israel, my urgency to discover how Israel could live in peace, my efforts to talk with angry, fearful…
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Arthur Waskow
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1978
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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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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
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New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
Date:
1957
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Gilad Ophir
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1997