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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…
Contributor:
Chaim Ben-Kiki
Places:
Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration over Ottoman Syria (Tiberias, Israel)
Date:
1921
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Brothers, the great necessity and the significant need for the publication of newspapers in [any] state are well known in all countries. It is common knowledge. And you will not find one opposing…
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Yeshurun
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Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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I belong to the generation that celebrated its bar mitzvah during the Six-Day War. Then, in 1967, the surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire…
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David Grossman
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Mevaseret Zion, Israel
Date:
1987
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Jews are associated with liberalism the way the French are with wine: it is considered native to their region. […] As I use it, liberalism is a belief in…
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Ruth R. Wisse
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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How shall I bless him and what will this child be blessed with? asked the angel. Life—so it emerges from the song lyric—was among the options of the angel’s blessing. But after all, angels don’t exist…
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Moshe Zuckermann
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half…
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Yehouda Shenhav
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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For fifty years, Jews of the West were protected by the shield of Nazism. As Bernanos wrote, Hitler had given antisemitism a bad name.We supposed this bad name to be permanent. Yet it…
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Alain Finkielkraut
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Paris, France
Date:
2004
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Next on our list of “things-to-do-today” was the Ramparts Walk to enable people to walk atop almost the entire circumference of the wall, excepting the area of the Temple Mount and the mosques. This…
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Teddy Kollek, Shulamith Eisner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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The author is no novice in this area of research; however, thirty years have passed since he was last engaged deeply in the history of religion. During the ten years of his stay on the banks of the…
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Jacob Obermeyer
Date:
1907
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The Secretary
Zionist Organisation
London
Baghdad, 8th September 1922
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 20th July 1922. It is needless to say that I greatly…
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Menahem Salih Daniel
Places:
Baghdad, British Mandate Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1922