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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitshak Shami
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Hebron, Mandate Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
1928
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This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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700–681 BCE
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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Did you know that The Jewish Voice almost became a defendant in a trial concerning the Press Act?
My fellow community members wanted to sue it.
Never have my fellow community members ever sued anyone…
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Žak Konfino
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Leskovac, Yugoslavia (Leskovac, Serbia)
Date:
1934
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The antiquarian who spends his time amid his old things may well have his moments of despair. He probably asks himself more than once: “What is the use of all these antiques, while…
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Moyshe Altman
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1935
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Olive liked her new job very much. She had never before tasted such rich, well-cooked food in her life. She put on weight. She was contented.
There wasn’t too much work; just cleaning the…
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Simon Blumenfeld
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1935
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At home they called her “dummy” and other names like that because she was always so quiet and still, never stirring when she was called. When she was nine years old, she went to school and began…
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Celia Dropkin
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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Adopted at the Anniversary Congress in Warsaw, November 13, 1937 To the Jewish working men and working women.To the rank-and-file of the Jewish people and working intellectuals!At a difficult time…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1937
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Cairo, Egypt
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