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Behold her blood flows in my blood,
Behold her voice within me sings—
Raḥel the herder of Laban’s sheep,
Raḥel—mother’s mother.
And so the house is too constricting for me
And the city—alien,
For…
Contributor:
Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
Places:
Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine
(Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1927
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I was sitting next to Brodsky, and Sonnenshein was sitting opposite us, near the back of the truck. From the moment we had crossed into Germany, something had happened to him. His pipe never left his…
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Hanoch Bartov
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1965
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
Contributor:
Binyamin Tenenbaum
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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When I crossed the ocean, I carried with me the habit of speaking to the shadows, and it became my way of life. I look up at the stars that were extinguished long ago. For me they still shine with the…
Contributor:
Blume Lempel
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1970
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Bianca Eshel-Gershuni
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1981
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The reading of Tetsaveh on [Shabbat] Zakhor, [the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim]:
A remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of…
Contributor:
Israel de Curiel
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
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Emanuel Sivan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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Often I receive letters from children who read my stories, and one question that is nearly always put to me in the letters is: “Did it really happen?” But, you see, I cannot always answer this…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1966
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After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and…
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Moshe Shamir
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1953