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This episode occurred on Deribasov Street, about two years after the beginning of our story.
At that time our editorial office was located at the upper end of the street, in the…
Contributor:
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1935
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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This photograph of a discus thrower refers to the Zionist idea of “muscular Judaism,” in which the “new” Jew would celebrate and cultivate the body, sports, and physical fitness. When Grschebina…
Contributor:
Liselotte Grschebina
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1937
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This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Despair before loss. The first reaction in relation to our world movement and its status in wartime was among many…
Contributor:
Moshe Kroneh
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Well done! Hatsofeh was the first newspaper in Erets Yisrael to react to the indifference of the public in the Yishuv in general and the administration of the Jewish Agency in particular with regard…
Contributor:
Elimelech Neufeld
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1939
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An old sight too has its moment of birth.
A birdless sky
Strange and set apart.
Facing your widow on the moonlit night stands
A city plunged in crickets’ tears.
And when you see a road still…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1938
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When our wild day is wiped like a tear
From cities and forest, from month and year,
Red Ridinghood walks on the road,
To pick a wild flower in the wood.
And following her is a duck and a cow,
Hobbl…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Holy grandmothers in Jerusalem,
May your virtue protect me.
The smell of blossoms and blooming orchards
I suckled with my mother’s milk.
Feet soft as hands, fumbling
In the torrid sand,
And tousled…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1930
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Zaritsky was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a modern art of Jewish…
Contributor:
Yosef Zaritsky
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1924