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In the Grip of Cross-Currents
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Now that the cup of poison is broken, there is no way out but to drink the cup of sorrows. . . . My affirmation of life demanded that I should dedicate all the powers…

Contributor:

Ephraim Lisitzky

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Date:

1949

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Community, Education, Israel/Israelis

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Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Uri
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Now we resemble a city under siege, one whose enemies swarm toward it from all directions. And if, in the meantime, we are forced to confront the tanks armed only with Molotov bottles, then we must…

Contributor:

Esther Streit-Wurzel

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Petah Tikva, Israel

Date:

1976

Subjects:

War, Military, Adolescence, Education, Israel/Israelis, Fiction

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Children & young adult literature, Fiction
Speech on the Opening of the Hebrew University, 1925
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The prophet of consolation prophesied (Isaiah 60: 4–5): “Lift up your eyes and look about; they have all gathered and come to you. Your sons shall be brought from afar, your daughters like babes on…

Contributor:

Abraham Isaac Kook

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1925

Subjects:

Yeshiva, Education, Israel/Israelis, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches
The Advantages of Hebrew
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 MemorandumTo the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa Dear Sirs,The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those concerned…

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Joseph Luria, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Yeḥiel Yeḥieli

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Jewish languages, Education, Yishuv

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand accounts