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Berlin-Grunewald
Tauberstr. 16
February 26, 1970
Dear Mr. Scholem,
Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…
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Peter Szondi
Places:
Berlin, West Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1970
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We must emphasize the impact Jews are having on the town of Jaffa. Those who knew Jaffa in the past can testify that the town owes a lot to the Jews; its appearance has changed dramatically over the…
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Ze’ev Smilansky
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1906
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For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!
Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.
Let us go out to the…
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Gershom Shofman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…
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Amos Oz
Places:
Huldah, Israel
Date:
1982
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A perfumelike smell, which came from the low clumps of acacia trees, or “mimosas,” as some liked to call them, scented the air of the small Jewish colony in southern Palestine. In the expanse of sky…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with…
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Aryeh Gelblum
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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With the first morning light I got up and looked out on the landscape of the Jerusalem Hills. I looked toward the nearby border. One of my relatives told me how the well in our house…
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Salman Shina
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1955
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Zusammen und zu Fuss.
Their backpacks on, Enzo and Mimmo walk at a steady pace along the Appian Way, not saying a word.
They won’t go very far this time though, because Enzo has a lot to do before…
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Clara Sereni
Places:
Perugia, Italy
Date:
1993