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Saul Steinberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Contributor:
Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb
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Cleveland Heights, United States of America
Date:
1978
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The Talmud is one of the great, classical writings of human civilization—enduring, influential, nourishing. It claims its place among the most successful pieces of writing in the history of humanity…
Contributor:
Jacob Neusner
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Annandale-on-Hudson, United States of America
Date:
1997
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The perceived role of the national culture in the Zionist Eretz-Israeli context was to shape the new Jewish society created in the land of Israel and to give it overall content. It aimed to shape the…
Contributor:
Yaacov Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997
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The term “past image” is used by different scholars in different ways, and it remains general and obscure because it refers to a structure derived from a bank of naturally amorphous reserves, seen by…
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Zohar Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1999
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Do Israelis have one culture or many cultures, or both one culture and many cultures? This question stems from three directions.
One direction is political. The Rabin assassination exposed a deep…
Contributor:
Nissim Calderon
Places:
Beersheba, Israel
Date:
2000
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
Contributor:
Hélène Cixous
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
2001
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My mother and father were an embarrassment to me, up until high school. They were much older than my friends’ parents (my dad was forty- seven and my mother was forty- four when I was born), and they…
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Paul Wellstone
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
2001
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Toward the end of the 1990s, a storm erupted among members of the Ethiopian community. They discovered that suspicions were being raised about the health of their blood, and that donations were…
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Abraham Adegah
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2002
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When Jan Gross’ Neighbors first appeared in Poland two years ago, with its grisly account of the July 10, 1941, slaughter of 1,600 Jews in the small northeastern town of Jedwabne, it sank like a stone…
Contributor:
Abraham Brumberg
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
2002