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A Joyful Mother of Children
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I entitled this volume Em Habanim Semeḥah [Psalms 113:9], based on the Jerusalem tractate of Berakhot (toward the close of the second chapter) which portrays Erets Yisrael as the mother of Israel and…

Contributor:

Issachar Shlomo Teichtal

Places:

Budapest, Hungary

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Holocaust, Zionism, Parenthood, Women, Aliyah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Political Culture
Life in a Hasidic Court in Russian Poland toward the End of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
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Rumors of my grandfather’s plan to depart for Palestine reached his wife and children shortly after the Russian revolution of 1905. [ . . . ] The…

Contributor:

Ita Kalish

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1965

Subjects:

Hasidism, Family, Aliyah, Holocaust, Nazis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Religion & Theology
Letter to Gershom Scholem
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Berlin-Grunewald Tauberstr. 16 February 26, 1970 Dear Mr. Scholem, Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…

Contributor:

Peter Szondi

Places:

Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Scholarship, Aliyah, Holocaust, Antisemitism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling