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Truth from the Land of Israel
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What more can I add? Will I tell my readers about the disreputable attributes that prevail among those coming from exile, about gratuitous hatred, discord, vain squabbles over a place in the synagogue…

Contributor:

Ahad Ha-Am

Places:

Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1891

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Zionism, Diaspora, Economic life

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling, Speeches
Under This Blazing Light
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So what do storytellers do? The ones I like operate more or less like tribal witchdoctors. Here is a little story for you. Nine thousand six hundred and six years ago, in a…

Contributor:

Amos Oz

Places:

Huldah, Israel

Date:

1972

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Leisure, Writing, Kibbutz, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling
The Advantages of Hebrew
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 MemorandumTo the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa Dear Sirs,The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those concerned…

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Joseph Luria, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Yeḥiel Yeḥieli

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Jewish languages, Education, Yishuv

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand accounts
Technion Building Plan
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Contributor:

Alexander Baerwald

Places:

Haifa, Ottoman Palestine (Haifa, Israel)

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Cities, Scholarship, Aesthetics, Israel/Israelis, Education

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Pedagogy & Schooling, Architecture
Illustration of long building façade.
The Bible and Mythological Polytheism
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What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible? This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…

Contributor:

Yehezkel Kaufmann

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1951

Subjects:

Theology, Israel/Israelis, Interfaith relations, Prayer & liturgy, Temple

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling