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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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The renaissance of the Maccabean festival, which began with the onset of modern nationalism, signified a great revolution in Jewish thinking. The Jew aspired to leave behind the unworthy life of exile…
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Robert Weltsch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
Contributor:
Moshe Beilinson
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Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine (Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Whoever reads Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, his letters, and even his Hebrew grammar, will recognize and avow that Spinoza was, relative to his times in Amsterdam, if not a great scholar…
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Joseph Klausner
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1927
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We take Jewish secular culture here in its modern shape, its language form, Yiddish. It is not the first expression of worldly or secular Jewish culture. In ancient times almost the entire cultural…
Contributor:
Chaim Zhitlowsky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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The top register of this plaque from Hazor depicts a crouching winged sphinx wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The lower register shows two stylized three-tiered palmettes. The…
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Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, first half of 8th century BCE
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The image on this coin is the front of a hybrid creature with the body of a winged feline (probably that of a lynx) and the head of a human. The head, crowned, has a beard and horns, representing a…
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
Date:
Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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This photo shows a reconstruction of the cella, or inner sanctum, of the Arad sanctuary as it is thought to have appeared in its last phase. At the rear stands a 35-inch-tall (90 cm) pillar of…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA(?)–IIB, 9th (?)–8th Century BCE
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919