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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…
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Chaim Ben-Kiki
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Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
(Tiberias, Israel)
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1921
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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1932
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
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Berl Katznelson
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1941
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Gradually we learned these things: The government of Sudan could not admit to helping Jews. Sudan, after all, was a friend of the other Arab nations, and there is fighting between Arabs and Jews…
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Sonia Levitin
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1987
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Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region. […] As I use it, liberalism is a belief in…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Now I want to talk about the approach to the Arab question. When I was discussing Brit Shalom [Covenant of Peace], I asked: Can there be a common position of Zionists and non-Zionists on this question…
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Berl Katznelson
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1930
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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
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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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
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New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
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1957
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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 debate in 1978 was not cathartic. It was just the opposite. Here we have something of a textbook example of the reciprocity between the present and collective memory…
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Anita Shapira
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Bloomington, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
2000