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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 (Israel)
Date:
1947
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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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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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Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
Contributor:
Itzhak Danziger
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
Contributor:
Alfons Himmelreich
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
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Abel Pann
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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This poster in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the October revolution of 1917 in Russia calls on all who seek peace, progress, and socialism to support the “first workers’ state,” the Soviet…
Contributor:
Yohanan Simon
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921