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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
Contributor:
David Frishman
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1901
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So condolence visits is what they’re here for,sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious faceat the Wailing Wall,laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.They get themselves…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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Mr. Beringer, whose son
fell at the Canal that strangers dug
so ships could cross the desert,
crosses my path at Jaffa Gate.
He has grown very thin, has lost
the weight of his son.
That’s why he…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
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Emanuel Sivan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
Contributor:
Fishel Schneersohn
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Huldah, Israel)
Date:
1943
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The heart is prized as the human body’s noblest and most important organ, for it is the first to feel the pain which any other part of the body…
Contributor:
Samuel Usque
Places:
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553