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Conscious of the fact that our national work is of no value as long as there is no measurably large and measurably strong Hebrew workers party in the land of Israel, we have set ourselves the goal of…
[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…
Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
Shlomo reclines within his shrine
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
Everyone knows how he is
Nobody knows about me
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
As if it means something to anybody.
If I have a…
This photograph by Moshe Gross is very much in the tradition of Zionist and Israeli iconography, which favored images stressing the heroic aspects of Zionism and the “new Jews” who were building…
The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many colours, and at dawn lead me to [my] toil.
My land is wrapped in light as in a prayer shawl. The houses stand forth like frontlets; and the roads…
This Hebrew-language poster urges Jews in Palestine to lend a hand to the rescue of Jewish refugees. During World War II, Jewish immigration to Palestine was banned by British Mandate authorities. A…
