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Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1902
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Mordechai ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Libya, Libya)
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1907
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…
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Joseph Nehama
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1914
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I am a Jew, and the Hebrew language is sweeter to me than the language of any other nation, for it is the heritage of our ancestors from time immemorial, a beloved remnant from days of yore…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, German Empire (Wroclaw, Poland)
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1888
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
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[Day of the week]
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Thursday
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Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
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Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
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1914
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Shmuel Veisenberg
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Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian SSR (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)
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1929
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The Hebrew Zakhor—“Remember”—announces my elusive theme. Memory is always problematic, usually deceptive, sometimes treacherous. Proust knew this, and the English reader is deprived of the full force…
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Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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Seattle, United States of America
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1982
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Today I returned from my trip to Tunis, and I will start to record what I witnessed, heard, and felt. On Thursday, 15 Iyyar (May 20, 1943), I left Tripoli. [ . . . ]
On that day…
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Ephraim E. Urbach
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Tripoli, British Military Administration of Libya (Tripoli, Libya)
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1943
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The first issue that should have occurred to a European-born, reality-sensitive composer upon immigration to the Land of Israel is: Is the musical…
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Alexander Uriah Boskowicz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1953
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[ . . . ] [A]n attempt will be made to present the history of the Jews of the African Maghreb, a large, well-defined diaspora which in some respects is different from other Jewish groups generally and…
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Ḥaim Zeev Hirschberg
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1965