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[To Jacob, thinking that he is Esau:] And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed.
“May…
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With the Almighty’s assistance.
It having been the case that the esteemed and exalted R. Joseph Fico, may his Rock and Redeemer protect him, has been perpetually quarreling with his esteemed wife, Mrs…
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Jan Luyken, Anonymous
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1607
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These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as…
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It did not take long to apprehend the assassin. A woman who had been passing heard the shots, saw a car skid away, took down the number and gave it to the police and, within hours, a man had been…
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Sandra Braude
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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1993
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Now I would also like to sing a bit,
With my poor voice,
Of things that have happened recently,
Which everyone ought to know:
Of the plague and pestilence,
That have happened here this time
In the…
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Elye Bokher
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1514
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Slingers attacking Lachish, 701 BCE, from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE). Members of the Assyrian army are depicted with slingstones piled at their feet…
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Lachish, Land of Israel
(Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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701 BCE
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Boy’s house. Boy. Three soldiers. The Boy is wounded all over. Twitches. Finally falls silent.
Pale Soldier:He dead or just—?
Flushed Soldier:Dead.
Pale Soldier:’Cause if he’s not dead—
Flushe…
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Hanoch Levin
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Palo Alto, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1997
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[…] [I]f suddenly Mexico and Israel went to war, on which side would I fight? My cowardly answer was plain and simple: “I really wasn’t cut out to be a soldier. So on neither one, since I’m a pacifist…
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Ilan Stavans
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Amherst, United States of America
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2001
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
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Menachem Birnbaum
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1920
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Dmitri Baltermants
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1942