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Arab Halva—moist, sticky, fibrous. The taste tears across my lips like a memory. Within me Jaffa stirs, wakens from sleep; eyes and faces of Jaffa.
I am there, it is afternoon, a city half-awake…
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Haim Gouri
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1971
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The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding…
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Avot Yeshurun
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1973
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Tiberias, March 7, 1909To the Very Honorable Miss Szold,I am certain that you will be surprised that after a year and a half of silence I am suddenly taking up our correspondence with this long letter…
Contributor:
Manya Wilbushewitz Shoḥat
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Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine (Tabarīya, Israel)
Date:
1909
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In this play, adapted by Shmuel Hasfari from a novel by Sami Michael, the Arab woman Houda explains why she has decided to abort the fruit of her love for a Jew who has been killed in the Lebanese war…
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Shmuel Hasfari
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1988
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Six days left. Less than a week! That means, after next Saturday I would no longer see Sayyid. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t change my clothes. I gritted my teeth, because I was afraid the shriek…
Contributor:
Sami Michael
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1979
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—I quite agree, sir. It was done a bit cavalierly and without a proper security check, because he had become known to everyone throughout the autumn months of the advance on Jerusalem. Which is why it…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1990
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I sit by the desk. Four hours of sleep is enough. The rain beats strongly on the neighboring garage’s tin rooftop. The roar of a bus rises from afar. Early rising workers head for the morning shift…
Contributor:
Shimon Ballas
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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At the end of King George Boulevard stood a tall building with two black, cavernous entrances. It served as a brothel, first for Arabs and later for Allied troops. When passing in front of this…
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Dan Vittorio Segre
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1985
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On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…
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Yitzhak Laor
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1982
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An eruv is a symbolic boundary around a certain area, which extends the boundaries of the home on the Sabbath, when carrying objects in public spaces is forbidden by Jewish law. Calle used the concept…
Contributor:
Sophie Calle
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1996