Showing Results 11 - 20 of 43
Restricted
Text
Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
Contributor:
Meir Berlin
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
During the summer of 5679 [1919] the government suddenly stopped supporting Tarbut and its schools, and after regaining our composure, we decided to address [Anatoly] Lunacharsky regarding this…
Contributor:
Jacob Mazeh
Date:
1936
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
Contributor:
Sasson Somekh
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It is possible, it is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep…there is no other place…
—Y. H. Brenner
Contributor:
Gershon Shaked
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1983
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Yesterday morning Roi was murdered. He was lulled by the quiet of the spring morning and did not notice those lying in wait in the furrow.
Today, let us not cast aspersions at the murderers. How can…
Contributor:
Moshe Dayan
Places:
Date:
1956
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
Contributor:
Berl Katznelson
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Now that the cup of poison is broken, there is no way out but to drink the cup of sorrows. . . .
My affirmation of life demanded that I should dedicate all the powers…
Contributor:
Ephraim Lisitzky
Places:
New Orleans, United States of America
Date:
1949
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…
Contributor:
Shalom Alsheikh
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people…
Contributor:
Sholem Schwartzbard
Places:
Berchères La Maingot, French Third Republic (Berchères-la-Maingot, France)
Date:
1933
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Moshava of Pardes-Hannah is the place I come from, but since I left it, my eyes have been turned away from it, as if I couldn’t look at it. Until I went to the army, the Moshava was a whole place…
Contributor:
Ariel Hirschfeld
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2000