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. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1920
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This episode occurred on Deribasov Street, about two years after the beginning of our story.
At that time our editorial office was located at the upper end of the street, in the…
Contributor:
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1935
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1937
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
Contributor:
Puah Rakovsky
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1942
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948
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Menahem Shemi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1928
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
Contributor:
Shulamit Kalugai
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1941
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This issue was the focus of controversy in eretz yisrael, and the whole land . . . quaked with the…
Contributor:
Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1920
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It was an afternoon in the middle of April when the accident occurred. The year was a leap year, rainy and warm, and on that summery spring day in the commune he had already been given the job of…
Contributor:
Yosef Haim Brenner
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1920
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In the grey evening, beside the white house, three old ladies sit, gazing straight ahead. And stillness all around. As if the eagle had suddenly frozen in flight. Three old ladies sit beside the…
Contributor:
Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1934