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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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In the days when…
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Jacob Cansino
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
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1638
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Message of Amaryaw: “Say to my lord, are you well? I have blessed you by YHWH of Teman and His asherah. May He bless you and may He keep you, and may He be with my lord [forever(?)].”)
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel
(Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late ninth or Early eighth Century BCE
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On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying:
Take a…
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1882
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The negro movement is still a most vexatious and mischievous one, and its effects are painfully felt in every Southern household. This morning Cy came to high words with George and…
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Emma Mordecai
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Richmond, Confederate States of America
(Richmond, United States of America)
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1864–1865
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Passover preparations for a Civil War–era Union soldier included importing seven barrels of matzot and collecting weeds to substitute for the symbolic bitterness of horseradish.
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J. A. Joel
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Cleveland, United States of America
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1866
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Flat Bush, Saturday, 10 o’c[lock]., August 10th, [17]’81
My dear Abby: [ . . . ]
[ . . . ] By the by, few N.York ladies know how to entertain company in their own houses unless they introduce the card…
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Rebecca Franks
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Flatbush, United States of America
Date:
1781
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18 April 7 pm. News. Amzanak told us that the CO [commanding officer] had asked him how many men we had, what they were doing, and whether many could work with wagons, and Amzanak said that we had…
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Joseph Trumpeldor
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Alexandria, Egypt
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1916