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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
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Shimon Aghasi
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1912
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
Date:
1882
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At the present moment there are from New York City and suburbs two women students at Cornell, four at Bryn Mawr, thirteen at Smith, seventeen at Vassar (besides fifteen in preparation for it) and…
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Annie Nathan Meyer
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1888
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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Mandate Palestine (Israel)
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1938–1948
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Though this photograph of Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski with the body of a soldier killed during the Allied assault on Omaha Beach has gone down in history as a photograph of D-Day, it was…
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Walter Rosenblum
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German Military Administration in Occupied France (France)
Date:
1944
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Morris Topchevsky painted Leaflets when he was an art instructor at the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, where the majority of students were Black. Here we see African Americans holding posters with…
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Morris Topchevsky
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1945
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I.We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist undertaking…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1919
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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My brothers and teachers: for some years, since I was enlightened by the luminous erudition of our pious forefathers, the rabbis in Babylon and the wise writers from Spain, my attention…
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World Sephardi Federation
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1925
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Now I want to talk about the approach to the Arab question. When I was discussing Brit Shalom [Covenant of Peace], I asked: Can there be a common position of Zionists and non-Zionists on this question…
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Berl Katznelson
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Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1930