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At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land
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In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…

Contributor:

Yossi Klein Halevi

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Interfaith relations, Aliyah, Christian-Jewish relations, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

Firsthand accounts
The Current Expenses of Jerusalem
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The current expenses of the city of Jerusalem, may it be speedily rebuilt and reestablished in our days, are close to five thousand kuruş per annum. This is not the case for Safed and Hebron. In the…

Contributor:

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Jerusalem, Cities, Economic life, Israel-Diaspora relations, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Firsthand accounts
The Brigade
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I was sitting next to Brodsky, and Sonnenshein was sitting opposite us, near the back of the truck. From the moment we had crossed into Germany, something had happened to him. His pipe never left his…

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Hanoch Bartov

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Date:

1965

Subjects:

Holocaust, Military, Christian-Jewish relations, Memory, Fascism, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography
Letter from Acre to His Father: First Part
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After wishing you good health and well-being and kissing your hand, as is befitting, and also to Madame my mother, blessed among women, amen, and to all the members of the household, may the Rock…

Contributor:

Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti

Places:

Acre, Ottoman Empire (Acre, Israel)

Date:

1741

Subjects:

Travel, Monarchy, Cities, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Letters