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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of figure and beautiful of appearance (Gen. 29:17). Targum Onkelos renders this verse as “Leah’s eyes…
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Kalonimos Kalman Epstein
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Kraków, Free City of Cracow
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1842
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The acquaintance between the Iranian and Jewish peoples began approximately 2,500 years ago. Historical and linguistic evidence supporting…
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Amnon Netser
Date:
1973
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[ . . . ] Modern Jewish humor grows from the tension of having to reconcile a belief as absolute as Elijah’s with an experience of failure as absolute as that of the priests of Baal…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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Chicago, United States of America
(Canada)
Date:
1971
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The letters of the Jews as strict as flames
Or little terrible flowers lean
Stubbornly upwards through the perfect ages,
Singing through solid stone the sacred names.
The letters of the Jews are…
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Karl Shapiro
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1954
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When the world wearies of day’s golden egg,
Shabrang, the dark bay steed, appears
From under the crow’s wings…
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Khwājah Bukhārā’īā
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Bukhara, Khanate of Bukhara
(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1606
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Return to your ancient past
Aid your sister with education and culture
And people of Israel will once more be a nation.
Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge
Take up in your hand the pen…
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Salim Yitshak Nissim
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Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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[ . . . ] Why is fame accorded to this particular individual, far and beyond his own time and place and why does he continue to capture new readers both in the original and in translation? [ . . . P…
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Dov Sadan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1959
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Penina V. Adelman
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1998