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The terms “recent generations” or “modern times” are commonly employed to denote the period of history which is close to us not only in time, but also in character—in its material circumstances…
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Ben-Zion Dinur
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1937
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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
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
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1902
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Brothers!While our true Zionist goal is more or less clear—namely, our national and political revival in the Land of Zion—the ways that lead us to our goal are still clouded in fog. We have been going…
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Joseph Vitkin
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine (Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
Date:
1905
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The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…
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Chaim Ben-Kiki
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Tiberias, Occupied Enemy Territory Administration over Ottoman Syria (Tiberias, Israel)
Date:
1921
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Yesterday morning Roi was murdered. He was lulled by the quiet of the spring morning and did not notice those lying in wait in the furrow.
Today, let us not cast aspersions at the murderers. How can…
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Moshe Dayan
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1956
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The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…
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Amos Oz
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Huldah, Israel
Date:
1982
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A perfumelike smell, which came from the low clumps of acacia trees, or “mimosas,” as some liked to call them, scented the air of the small Jewish colony in southern Palestine. In the expanse of sky…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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This issue was the focus of controversy in eretz yisrael, and the whole land . . . quaked with the…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…
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Yaacov Shavit
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997