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We know that a writer has no power except in the pen. Nevertheless there are times when it behooves us to alter the ordinary manner of expression. There are times when the author, too, must depart…
Contributor:
Asher Barash
Places:
Kefar Shemaryahu, Mandate Palestine
(Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel)
Date:
1944
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The two hundred and fifty letters presented here require no preliminaries or commentary. No human language is adequate to the task. Even the account of our people’s history, drenched as…
Contributor:
Berakha Ḥabas
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
Contributor:
Zalman Shazar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947