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Purim Letters
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Mordecai recorded these events. And he sent dispatches to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, charging them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Purim, Writing, Holidays, Diaspora, Food and drink, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
In Judah and the Galilee
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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains— Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…

Contributor:

David Ben-Gurion

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Travel, Diaspora, Zionism, Jewish identity, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Jeremiah’s Letter to the Jewish Exiles in Babylonia
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This is the text of the letter which the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the priests, the prophets, the rest of the elders of the exile community, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Diaspora, Blessings & curses, Prophets & prophecy, Punishment, Prayer & liturgy, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Issues of the Hour
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This period of time is marked by four phenomena. Three of them concern everyone, and one concerns religious youth specifically. 1. Despair…

Contributor:

Moshe Zvi Neriah

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Sukkot, Assimilation, Yishuv, Diaspora, Halakhah, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches