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At home I have a blue piano,
I, who cannot play a note.
It stands in the gloom of the cellar door,
now that the world has grown coarse.
The four hands of the stars play there
—the moonwife sang…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Tiberias, March 7, 1909To the Very Honorable Miss Szold,I am certain that you will be surprised that after a year and a half of silence I am suddenly taking up our correspondence with this long letter…
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Manya Wilbushewitz Shoḥat
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Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine (Tabarīya, Israel)
Date:
1909
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A systematic collection of the traditional songs of Oriental Jews is of great importance, both for the elucidation of the vocal music used in synagogues and for the study of the origins of…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1914
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Alexander Baerwald
Places:
Haifa, Ottoman Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1916
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The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish…
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Yitshak Baer
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
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Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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[ . . . ] Why does the present Jewish fate appear so strongly connected to our entire past and to all that is currently unfolding before our eyes? At times it seemed that many distinct events stood…
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Oskar Yeshayahu Wolfsberg
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1939
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When we speak about the economy of a given nation, about the German, French, or Polish economies, we don’t mean the economic lives of all the people belonging, according to their race, language…
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Bernard D. Weinryb
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929