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Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination,
While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile.
My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…
Contributor:
Shalem Shabazī
Places:
Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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O great mountain (Zechariah 4:7), the exalted and raised (Isaiah 52:13), precious cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16), my teacher, my rabbi, may the Merciful One guard and bless him, may God protect him and…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
Date:
1732
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Behold the Lord, my soul, look up to Him
Who made you, give Him worship due,
Lest you be lost when He be wroth with you—
For your sin, O wayward one, your grievous sin.
On wisdom’s wing, ascend to…
Contributor:
Joseph Tsarfati
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
Contributor:
Joseph Tsarfati
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Various eggplant recipes have been passed down to us.
the first is one inherited from the late Morena:
you cut it into slices and throw them into the main dish
for that is how she was taught her by…
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Unknown
Places:
Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
Date:
16th Century
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[…] Must we conclude that Israeli society is doomed to experience a Kulturkampf, and that the Zionist synthesis is marching ineluctably toward its undoing? Before answering that question, let us…
Contributor:
Aviezer Ravitzky
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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…The rationalist model related to Jewish history and the Diaspora as accidents that could be corrected. It did not devote much thought to the past, but…
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Anita Shapira
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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Much has been written about the split that occurred in Zionist ideology after the removal of the immediate existential threat in the Six Day War—a split that grew increasingly wide with the Yom Kippur…
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Gadi Taub
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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The spring of 1998 was kind to the Jezreel Valley. The rain, which was heavy and late, colored the slopes of the Gilboa with bright green and spread carpets of wildflowers on them—red, purple, and…
Contributor:
Nahum Barnea
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998