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Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many colours, and at dawn lead me to [my] toil.
My land is wrapped in light as in a prayer shawl. The houses stand forth like frontlets; and the roads…
Contributor:
Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1927
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This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…
Contributor:
Israel Halperin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
Date:
1941
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With evening a whistle. Again the sweating store room
opens its throat wide, and we march out in formation
worn down by the heat wave and a day so long:
hard working soldier-women.
And why should…
Contributor:
Ella Amitan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1945
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
Contributor:
Binyamin Tenenbaum
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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40. When the tradition concerning the opposition of the sea and its confederates to the will of the Creator of the…
Contributor:
Umberto Cassuto
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
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Zalman Shazar
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1943
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The meaning of the Jewish revolution is contained in one word—independence! Independence for the Jewish people in its homeland! Dependence is not merely political or economic; it is also moral…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1944
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In my opinion, one cannot understand the development of the Science of Judaism except by taking note of the profound contradictions or, if you will, the unique dialectical tensions present within it…
Contributor:
Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Before Talpiot was built the King of the Winds used to rule over the entire region: and all his ministers and servants, mighty and stubborn winds, dwelled there with him and blew over mountain and…
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S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941