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Behind him, a short distance to the right, he had noticed a stranger—give a skeleton a couple of pounds—loitering near a bronze statue on a stone pedestal of the heavy-dugged Etruscan wolf suckling…
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Bernard Malamud
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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Beloved brothers!
It is a sublime and meaningful name we have taken for ourselves! We carry the name of choice individuals from our people—people who have, in practice, actually presented themselves…
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David Horowitz
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria, Austria)
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1917
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In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without a people…
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Chaim Weizmann
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1914
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What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1891
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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1892
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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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Do Israelis have one culture or many cultures, or both one culture and many cultures? This question stems from three directions.
One direction is political. The Rabin assassination exposed a deep…
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Nissim Calderon
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Beersheba, Israel
Date:
2000
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Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech and hopes, and…
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Yehonatan Geffen
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1981
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What, actually, am I doing here?
I owe myself, and perhaps others, an answer to this question. What, actually, am I doing here? Why do I go on a clear morning to Levinsky, why in zigzags, stopping…
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Amos Kenan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1981
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For two hundred years, Jews have obsessively sought to achieve two goals—the collective normality of the Jewish people, and the ability to control their own destiny. Since 1782, these goals have been…
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Gerson D. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982