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Come next year we shall sit on the porch
Count the birds flying north.
Children on holiday will play catch
Between the house and the meadow.
You will see, you will yet see
How good it will be
In…
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Ehud Manor
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1968
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Beyond the cloud upon the ocean
There’s a white and lonely sail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
I light a candle at my window
And its flame is shy and frail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
Let us…
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Naomi Shemer
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1973
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Black ants crawl over nicotine-stained fingertips
dipping a mint leaf into the glass.
The alcohol dismantles Abd al-Wahab’s
“Cleopatra.”
Now all is clear
solo violin
solo flute
solo oud
we’re…
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Ronny Someck
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1973
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Everything, nearly everything, was taken away from us in the ghettos and concentration camps by the great criminals. They did not spare our treasures, both material and spiritual. Even our…
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Israel Kaplan
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1949
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Without the appropriate distance, writing history is particularly difficult and thorny in this case. And there is an additional element of complexity. Forced into the thankless role of the prosecutor…
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Josef Wulf, Léon Poliakov
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1955
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The Jewish man is first and foremost the Hebrew man, and the Jewish man, since he is Hebrew, is the man of origins. Origins of what? Origins of what all of us are, origins of Western as well as…
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André Neher
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Strasbourg, France
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1972
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Permit me to preface the necessary information about the contents and the meaning of the book which is herewith presented to my readers with a few remarks about Jewish…
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Leopold Zunz
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Berlin, Germany
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1832
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At a time when the worship of the dead letter degenerated into idolatry; at a time when men passed their lives in counting the verses, the words and the letters of the Law, at a time when the official…
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Adolphe Franck
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Paris, France
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1843
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This is the eighteen-hundred-year era of the diaspora, of unprecedented suffering, of uninterrupted martyrdom without parallel in world history. But it is also a period of spiritual alertness, of…
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Heinrich Graetz
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
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1846
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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1864