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“When I get papa out of jail, we’ll join you. We’ll meet at Strasbourg, don’t worry,” Mama said.
When Alex heard about the entire matter, he said: “No, I don’t want to go. I want Mama.”
Alex was very…
Contributor:
Ruth Almog
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1999
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[…]Uncle Herbert was right, part of the time they made them use toothbrushes, for a joke. They sloshed bucketfuls of ammonia and other stuff that burns the skin and stings the eyes over the street and…
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Doris Orgel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1978
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Confronted by difficult problems after 1945 (reconstruction of a community life after the physical and material losses of the Second World War, integration of successive and ever more numerous waves…
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Nelly Gutman
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Paris, France
Date:
1984
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It is standard fare at Zionist assemblies to declare that Israel belongs to all Jews, wherever they live. As a ritual to be trotted out on Sabbaths and festivals (and the atmosphere at Zionist…
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Menachem Brinker
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1985
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But must we conclude—as many think—that Halachah and Aggadah are two irreconcilable opposites?
Those who so conclude are confusing accident and form with substance; as who should declare the ice and…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915
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[ . . . ] I further wish to say: it is not sufficient that we worry ourselves with the young kids who will grow into goats—we must also be concerned with the mature goats who have already grown horns…
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A. Litai
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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What is this Jewish Prague that is so much talked about here? We don’t know it in a way that would allow us to define it or draw its image. But we know that it is a reality that lives in us and has an…
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Robert Weltsch
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
1917
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Some impassioned readers among us will not admit that our one and only literature has a double language. After the Czernowitz conference, one of our Hebrew writers (now living in America) swore…
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Bal-Makhshoves
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1918
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The People’s Art College in Vitebsk, fulfilling the needs of the whole Western Land, is a ripe necessity, especially since our Revolutionary time compels us with unusual force to undertake the…
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Marc Chagall
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1918
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There is no doubt that the Jewish parochial school is the easiest and most alluring method of preserving Jewish religious life in…
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Alexander Dushkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918