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Yemenite Aliyah to the Land of Israel
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I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…

Contributor:

Shalom Alsheikh

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Zionism, Israel/Israelis, Jerusalem, Migration, Community

Categories:

Literature, Reportage, Memoirs & Diaries
Nostalgia
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget itself.Give us the land we have wandered in timeThrough foreign parts, far, so far and then,Every year at Passover we repeat the lineNext year…

Contributor:

Olga Kirsch

Places:

Rehovot, Israel

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Zionism, Jerusalem, Israel/Israelis, Jewish identity

Categories:

Poetry, Literature
The Road into the Open
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“As you see me, I’m on my way to Corfu . . . for the present. The season begins before times become intolerable for me at the Ehrenberg house.” “No one is demanding,” replied Frau Ehrenberg gently,…

Contributor:

Arthur Schnitzler

Places:

Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Class, Jewish identity, Jerusalem, Zionism

Categories:

Literature, Fiction