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Camille Pissarro was notable among his fellow impressionist painters in that he often put trees at the center of his compositions instead of using them primarily as a framing device. He also…
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Camille Pissarro
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1877
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho painted this portrait of Wakara (ca. 1808–1855) of the Timpanogos tribe (later chief of the Utah Indians) after returning from a trip to the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Utah, United States of America
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1854
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The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
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Shmuel Yavnieli
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
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Saul Borovoi
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1928
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
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Meir Shalev
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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It took me twenty years to love
this hole in the middle of nowhere.
The cotton balls spread a white flame
and there was an ill wind in the cypresses
until for the first time I saw,
with a just eye,
t…
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Shimon Adaf
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that’s no reason why they cain…
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Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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In the year 1885, a few days after the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, it began to rain in the plains surrounding the rivers Rednitz and Pegnitz and continued to do so almost…
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Jakob Wasserman
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Munich, German Empire (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1897
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On August 20, 1906, the settlers of the Jewish Colonization Association, meeting in the town of Basavilbaso, Lucienville Colony…
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J. M. Salva
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Basavilbaso, Uruguay
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1908
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A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Tomaszow, Russian Empire (Tomaszów County, Poland)
Date:
1890