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Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitshak Shami
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Hebron, Mandate Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
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1928
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I will not dwell too long on the bitter theme of the many purely external difficulties with which the writer in exile must contend. I hope that those who have not experienced these difficulties…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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1943
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And He said to me, “O mortal, stand up on your feet that I may speak to you.” As He spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet; and I heard what was being spoken to me…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Her bitter soul is anguished, because of her ailing wound.
The city one teeming with people is desolate, the Holy City that she had inherited.
For the glorious, sweet land, tears descend like a…
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Netanel Crescas
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Ottoman Empire (Algeria)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
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1910
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914Your Eminence,Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…
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David Pisanté
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Rosario, Argentina
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1914
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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1910
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To make the history of antisemitism complete, omitting none of the manifestations of this sentiment and following its divers phases and modifications, it is necessary to go into the history of Israel…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, France
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1894
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On the day of the new moon of Kislimu (Kislev), Bil-barakki, son of Nani, will bring Dayana and hand her over to Hoshea. If he does not bring and hand over the woman, Bil-barakki will pay Hoshea 3…
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Gozan, Aram-Damascus (Tall Ḩalaf, Syria)
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669–627 BCE