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I went to see to my sister in Berlin.
She wants me to consider moving in.
Her husband’s passed away now, a schlemiel,
He left her too much money in his will.
Her residence is filled with precious…
Contributor:
Georg Kreisler
Places:
Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1963
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“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
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Carol Matas
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Winnipeg, Canada
Date:
1993
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Moshe:How? There’s no inner sanctum in my life, my life is secular, absolutely secular, from beginning to end. And what’s not in my psyche, I’ll not let you erect between us. Neither you nor anyone…
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Yehoshua Sobol
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
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Dan Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
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Odets:(pulls a silver cigarette case from his pocket, takes out an unfiltered cigarette, offers the case to Werfel) Smoke?
Werfel:Nicotine is bad for you…thanks. (He takes out three cigarettes and…
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Michaela Ronzoni
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1997
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And then—it was after I had returned from Tiberias to Tel Aviv to attend a literary soirée—then the creative activity, archetypical, all-embracing, that hitherto I had sought in vain, at last…
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A. M. Klein
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1951
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.
Give us the land we have wandered in time
Through foreign parts, far, so far and then,
Every year at Passover we repeat the line
Next…
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Olga Kirsch
Places:
Rehovot, Israel
Date:
1948
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Date:
1902
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My heart is seeking out the Lord, and to Almighty God I pray
That He come back unto the altar, shelter me beneath His shade,
And that He settle Israel’s throngs in a tranquil dwelling place.
In…
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Israel Najara
Places:
Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Hear my cry, O Lord,
Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.
Have mercy, fight my battle for me,
For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Long have I inhabited a foreign land,
Afflicted with…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century