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Po‘ale Tsiyon’s Approach on Palestine
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Given the socioeconomic life-conditions that obtain in the capitalist countries, the Jewish national group [folk-grupe]—as a people without its own national economy—will inevitably always feel a sharp…

Contributor:

Po‘ale Tsiyon Central Committee

Places:

Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Economic life, Nationalism, Zionism, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy
Letter from Rebecca Samuel to Her Parents
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Dear Parents: I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…

Contributor:

Rebecca Samuel

Places:

Petersburg, United States of America

Date:

ca. 1792

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Family, Jewish identity, Holidays

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Worker’s Song
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 Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…

Contributor:

Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)

Places:

Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Labor, Class, Jewish identity, Economic life

Categories:

Performing Arts, Music, Popular Poetry