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This pair of bronze cymbals from a Canaanite stratum in Megiddo has a bronze loop set into the center of each cymbal for a finger. The Bible often refers to Israelites using cymbals that undoubtedly…
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Megiddo, Land of Israel (Tel Megiddo, Israel)
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Iron Age I, 12th–10th Century BCE
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There are things in this country too—
And if they find no streetlamp pole,
There will be a tree—and that means clearly
That a Negro over twenty years old
May hate all things which spire
To hold a man…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America
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1934
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In 1947, when Kurt Weill’s orchestral arrangement of Hatikva received its world premiere in New York, it was still—as it had been for decades—the anthem of the modern Zionist movement, expressing the…
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Neil W. Levin
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New York, United States of America
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2004
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Twenty-three Jews came to America in 1654 and some five million live in the United States today. Though this seems like a long story, it is but a short chapter in the history of Judaism. Anything…
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Mark Slobin
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Middletown, United States of America
Date:
1989
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Sunday, November 1 [1942], it was announced in the order of the day that all policemen must assemble at twenty minutes past two in the premises of the former Slobodka Yeshive for a solemn oath-taking…
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Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1943
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Avigdor Stematsky
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1962
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Eduard Magnus
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1846
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The bilingual Yiddish-English cover of a program for a variety show at Irving Music Hall on New York City’s Lower East Side advertises “high class Jewish vaudeville” and bills itself as “the finest…
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Unknown
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1905
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Verse 1Sadie Cohen left her happy homeTo become an actress lady,On the stage she soon became the rage,As the only real Salomy baby.When she came to town, her sweetheart MoseBrought for her around a…
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Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Edgar Leslie
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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This advertisement for a performance at the Villa Colona in Berlin of the Vienna Men’s Chorus and Comedy Quartet, under the direction of Nathan Schwarz, depicts four men in traditional Hasidic costume…
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1882