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My heart is with your dews, homeland,
At night, above fields of nettles
And to the scent of cypresses and wet thistle
A hidden wing shall I spread out.
Soft sand-cradles are your roads
Spread out…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
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Cairo, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1923
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I think of my father who believes
a Jew can outrun fate by owning land.
Slave to property now, I mow
and mow, my destiny the new Egypt.
From his father, the tailor, he learned not
to rent but to own…
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Robin Becker
Places:
Boalsburg, United States of America
Date:
2000
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At the same time, let it be pointed out that this call for a new Hibbat Zion is directed towards the idea rather than the movement, since the historical Hibbat Zion was a movement which failed and an…
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Yosef Gorny
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1994
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Gentile is a category of difference. It is the point of departure, something self-evident. The Jew at prayer declares this daily: “Thou hast chosen us from all the…
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Adi Ophir
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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It appears rather strange that Jewish intellectuals, more than three decades after World War II, feel called upon now more than ever before to articulate for West Germans what it has meant and means…
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Jack Zipes
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Minneapolis, United States of America
Date:
1980
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Many people believe that the question of “the mingling of the diasporas” will be resolved in the workplace, in the mixed neighborhood, in school, etc. oriental [Mizrahi] Jews, they say, who acquire…
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Shimon Ballas
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1965
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We Jews who live in the staid serenity of America have failed to grasp the immensity of the tragedy which has befallen our people and this failure is perhaps the greatest part of the tragedy. Were the…
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Noah Golinkin, Jerome Lipnick, M. Bertram Sachs
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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My grandfather stood six feet three in his worn-out bedroom slippers. He had a long grey beard with streaks of white running through it. When he prayed, his voice boomed like a choir as he turned the…
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Ted Allan
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1949
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Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…
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Samuel Pecar
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1954
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The train was beginning to slow down again, and Abraham noticed lights in the distance. He shifted his body only slightly so as not to disturb the boy, and sank back into the familiar pattern of…
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Adele Wiseman
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1956