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We want to make ourselves strong for our people and the cities of our God, and to raise the banner of Torah which had been thrown to the ground and trodden down.
Behold, this people of God is a…
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Jacob Berab
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1538
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Where shall I start? My thoughts are in turmoil. There is an overpowering desire burning in me to put in writing as speedily as possible all that has happened to us in these years of war, especially…
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Stanislaw Adler
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Finding something to say about Westerbork is also difficult because of its ambiguous character. On the one hand it is a stable community in the making, a forced one to be sure, yet with all the…
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Etty Hillesum
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1943
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As the day approaches for the election of the Knesset and the local and municipal authorities, Sephardi and oriental Jewish leaders evince increasing alertness to the…
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Avraham Abbas
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1958
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Much has been written about the split that occurred in Zionist ideology after the removal of the immediate existential threat in the Six Day War—a split that grew increasingly wide with the Yom Kippur…
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Gadi Taub
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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Nissim Levy dodged out through the back fence. He said goodbye to Danino, but instead of running away, he stood still, not far from there, and tried to pick up some words from the…
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Ehud Ben-Ezer
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1963
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I believe I ought to go over the moment when I learned of his death once more.
A summer morning, the sky wide, June, last days of the school year. I rise late, faintly stunned, straight into the…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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1972
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God has pity on kindergarten children,
He pities school children—less.
But adults he pities not at all.
He abandons them,
And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours
In the scorching sand
To reach…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1955
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At noon in the kasbah
When the souk was packed
I’d be walking around
My chest toned and hard
And they’d all be saying: What a guy
And as I walked down the alleyways
From every window…
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Dan Almagor
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1966
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Yosef Zaritsky
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1951