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Legumes and Barley
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Greetings, Islah. Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 475 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Sabbath, Food and drink, Economic life, Violence, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Henrietta Szold
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Tiberias, March 7, 1909To the Very Honorable Miss Szold,I am certain that you will be surprised that after a year and a half of silence I am suddenly taking up our correspondence with this long letter…

Contributor:

Manya Wilbushewitz Shoḥat

Places:

Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine (Tabarīya, Israel)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Zionism, Israel/Israelis, Agriculture, Arab-Jewish relations, Economic life, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Excerpt from a Letter to A. D. Gordon on Labor and Nature
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[ . . . ] For the whole day after I received your letter, I had the same celebratory mood that one feels after a cleansing and encouraging spiritual moment. Yet I am too weak to hold on to it. In…

Contributor:

Rachel Katznelson-Shazar

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Ecology, Economic life, Agriculture, Scholarship, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters