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How is a song born?
Like a baby.
At first it hurts
But then, it comes out
And everyone is happy
And suddenly—
How wonderful!
It’s walking
All on its own.
How is a song born?
Like…
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Yehonatan Geffen
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
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Tamar El-Or
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1998
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There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
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Isaac Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1858
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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…
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Ephraim Lisitzky
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New Orleans, United States of America
Date:
1949
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In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…
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Alexander Baerwald
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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ca. 1912
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The machine-woven rugs produced by the Torah u-mel’aḥah trade school in Jerusalem for export to France were typically red and rectangular (similar to Turkish prayer carpets), and they featured the…
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Alliance Israélite Universelle School of Crafts
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1901–1910
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Moses wrote down this Teaching and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who carried the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
And Moses instructed them as follows: Every…
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe, Isaiah Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1623
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Even in the narrative prose written by native Hebrew speakers towards the end of the 1940s, writers who hardly knew any foreign language and who were assuming positions at the center of the literary…
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Itamar Even-Zohar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1980
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The National and University Library building, designed by Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, is a cube supported by free-standing columns, with glass walls on the ground floor. It is a prime example of the…
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Ziva Armoni, Hanan Hebron
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1960