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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
Contributor:
Arnold Zweig
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France, France
Date:
1916
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This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Contributor:
Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940–1942
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In placing before the public this account of the Bene-Israel of the Bombay Presidency, we think we need make no apology for having selected a subject in which the civilized world has already…
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Haeem Samuel Kehimkar
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Bombay, British India (Mumbai, India)
Date:
1897
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These letters have been selected from thousands in a similar vein which it has been the privilege of the editor to peruse. They were forwarded to him from all sections of the country. The…
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Isaac E. Rontch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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This photograph of a bare-chested young man flexing his muscles in front of an army tent is one of the best-known images in Nes’s “Soldiers” series, an exploration of Israeli identity and masculinity…
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Adi Nes
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1996
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Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German, Anglo…
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Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an earlier…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1893