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Not in vain did I vow to be faithful,
not in vain did I tag at your heels.
With the mole I struggled from darkness,
stubborn and under a spell.
You, grief of the nails on my fingers,
you, woe of my…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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A State is not handed to a people on a silver platter.
[Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel]
. . . and the land was silent. The incarnate sun
Flickered languidly
Above the smoldering borders…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Across a red horizon evening descends
In the breeze treetops tremble and sway
As we sit around the campfire and tell
Of a Palmach man, Dudu was his name
He was with us on long exhausting treks
We…
Contributor:
Haim Hefer
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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All those things whose names I hushed
in secret, I meet in the night’s abyss.
I face the dark. Alert, remembering. Silently,
again I’ll let you in—my friends, my beloved dead.
And here you are as…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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After a long stay in the city, I was glad to go out, to travel as far as the Sharon, full of eagerness for fields, colors, green light. But to my misfortune, I fell into a crowded bus, crammed…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
Contributor:
Reuven Rubin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1923
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Avraham Melnikov
Places:
Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine
(Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934
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Eric Mendelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940–1942