Showing Results 1 - 10 of 24
Restricted
Text
Image
Night ThoughtsThat night, I had the weirdest thoughts. I don’t know why, but suddenly I thought to myself how great it is for a boy to have a bed as comfortable as my own. He can lie in bed and get a…
Contributor:
Galila Ron-Feder, Pépi Marzel
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
Listen, Jewish children, and I will tell you a story about a penknife. It’s not a made-up story, but a true story that really happened to me. There was nothing on earth I yearned for as much as I…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1887
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The grund . . . You handsome and robust country lads of the wide-open spaces, who need only step outside your doors to be close to limitless meadows, under a marvelous vast canopy of blue; you whose…
Contributor:
Ferenc Molnár
Date:
1906
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In those days, but especially since the year 1740, when Frederick the Great ascended the throne, various social circles in Berlin began zealously to acquire intellectual knowledge. Even among…
Contributor:
Isaak Herzberg
Date:
1907
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
How is a song born?
Like a baby.
At first it hurts
But then, it comes out
And everyone is happy
And suddenly—
How wonderful!
It’s walking
All on its own.
How is a song born?
Like…
Contributor:
Yehonatan Geffen
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
Chapter 1The explosion was on the first day of the Passover vacation.The minimarket across from our house was already closed when suddenly a deafening bolt of thunder could be heard, rolling down the…
Contributor:
Daniella Carmi, Albert Hanan Kaminski
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
Image
Sensitive Content
A Meeting at the StationI stood outside the grocery, holding a shopping bag in one hand, and Phat’hi’s strange “letter” in the other. I looked at the drawings of the car, the clock, and the sign over…
Contributor:
Emuna Elon, Michael Netzer
Places:
Bet El, West Bank
Date:
1988
Subjects:
Restricted
Image
The children's book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins was written by Eric Kimmel and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Featuring the legendary Jewish hero Hershel of Ostropol pitted against goblins…
Contributor:
Eric A. Kimmel, Trina Schart Hyman
Places:
Portland, United States of America
Date:
1989
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
“The State of Israel is a distant dream,” said Jeremiah, “and my dream is close by.” I knew, of course, what he meant, but I wanted to continue talking about the subject that preoccupied me more than…
Contributor:
Dorit Orgad
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1988