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This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…
Contributor:
Israel Halperin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
Date:
1941
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She was fourteen when she married him. She too was ornately dressed that day and sat on Preciado’s right. She too danced with him . . . Was not this her wedding night? —No, it is not!The fierce…
Contributor:
Yitshak Shami
Places:
Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, Palestine)
Date:
1907
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To our fruit of holiness enwrapped in praise, our man of deeds rich in accomplishment, the exalted prince and honored rabbi. May your light shine like the rising sun, blossom like the flowers! May an…
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Nathan of Gaza
Places:
Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
Date:
1666
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This hand-drawn map of Hebron, Israel, is from an autograph manuscript of Melekhet Shelomoh (The Work of Solomon), Solomon Adeni’s commentary on the Mishnah.
Contributor:
Solomon Adeni
Places:
Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, Palestine)
Date:
ca. 1611
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We have convened this conference for lamentation and soul searching. Before I begin my remarks, I wish to make a heartfelt appeal from here to the responsible people in the Left camp: for G-d’s sake…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amital
Places:
Alon shvut, Palestine
Date:
1995
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Bassan is particularly well known for his photographs of the Old Yishuv, the community of Jews established well before the arrival of Zionist pioneers. He was the first Jewish photographer born in…
Contributor:
Tsadok Bassan
Places:
Jerusalem (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1920–1929
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Raban was known as a designer, painter, and book illustrator but also designed at least two posters, including this one for the Society for the Promotion of Travel in the Holy Land. The poster’s…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Raban
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1929
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This photograph of a discus thrower refers to the Zionist idea of “muscular Judaism,” in which the “new” Jew would celebrate and cultivate the body, sports, and physical fitness. When Grschebina…
Contributor:
Liselotte Grschebina
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1937
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Baghdad-born Suleiman (Saliman) Menaḥem Mani (1850–1924) held many important posts in Ottoman Palestine, including chief rabbi of Hebron. He was also a Hebrew poet and fiction writer and the author of…
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Hebron, Ottoman Palestine (Hebron, Palestine)
Date:
Early 20th Century
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
Contributor:
Puah Rakovsky
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
Date:
1942