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It was one of the stories from Genesis that most frightened me as a child: the story of Lot’s wife.
She was told not to look, and she looked; and her punishment came swift and horrible. Frozen in…
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Rebecca Goldstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Wake, Israel, wake! Recall to-day
The glorious Maccabean rage,
The sire heroic, hoary-gray,
His five-fold lion-lineage:
The Wise, the Elect, the Help-of-God,
The Burst-of-Spring, the…
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Emma Lazarus
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1882
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In memory of my father, Salomón Motje Rozitchner.
What other eternity is there
if not that of knowing
you are eternally dead.
For Jews the choices are not just difficult. The revolution requires the…
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León Rozitchner
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1968
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It is for us, for all of us together,
To assist, to liberate, to rescue brothers,
From capture, from hunger and slaughter—
Rescue them from the vile Nazi oppressor.
Every man and woman whose soul…
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Yehuda Karni
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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In all times of transition such as the one we are now undergoing, on every occasion when human society passes from one era to another era, from one way of doing things to another way of doing them…
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Joseph Salvador
Places:
Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860