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Year after year, that cruel monster in the heart
growing, sense of guardedness expanding.
Year after year—generations’ blessing
gouged like a needle into the body.
I have wrenched it with irons…
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Shmuel Halkin
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1927
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On an autumn night, on a bed of sorrows, far from home and shattered hearth,
My mother died;
A last tear froze in her eyes as she gasped a dying blessing
To me, her son, setting forth…
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Yitshak Lamdan
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Max Liebermann
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Munich, Germany
Date:
1879
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The educated Englishman can live his entire life without ever once giving a moment’s thought to his people’s historical destiny or purpose. He knows instinctively that his people are alive and intact…
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Mikhail Gershenzon
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1922
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This pair of bronze cymbals from a Canaanite stratum in Megiddo has a bronze loop set into the center of each cymbal for a finger. The Bible often refers to Israelites using cymbals that undoubtedly…
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Megiddo, Land of Israel (Tel Megiddo, Israel)
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Iron Age I, 12th–10th Century BCE
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After long deliberation, I concluded that we would be making a grave mistake if we did not participate in the upcoming kehilah electio…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1924
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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1926
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1786
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Having laid out for the reader my thoughts about religion, revelation, and faith/belief, their manifold aim and their various components, I now consider…
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Saul Ascher
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792
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Yetkhen:And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I have…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1796