Showing Results 1 - 10 of 12
Restricted
Text
Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
Contributor:
Berl Katznelson
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…
Contributor:
Shalom Alsheikh
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It is clear that if there were no other proposal for saving tens of thousands of our brothers from their hard and bitter sufferings, if there were no other way in which our people could be reborn and…
Contributor:
Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1881
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
Contributor:
David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
We are tired of being hungry! There is hardly a Hebrew word [to be found]. There is neither vision nor examination, no memory of the ancients, no expressions for the present generation…
Contributor:
Naḥum Sokolow
Places:
Cologne, Germany
Date:
1907
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
There is a need for a special Hebrew newspaper written for Galicia and the rest of the Central European countries—it seems to us that there is no need to emphasize this point. The two Hebrew-language…
Contributor:
Simon Lazar
Date:
1904
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I am not a representative of the public, nor am I an official party member. My words do not bear an organization’s official stamp of approval, nor did I obtain readers’ endorsements in advance. Rather…
Contributor:
Berl Katznelson
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1912
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At the last council meeting of the Histadrut, the question of cultural work was on the agenda for the first time. This time it was impossible to discuss only the formal and technical aspects of our…
Contributor:
David Horowitz
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At five o’clock in the morning our commanders stormed into the dormitories to wake us. No morning gymnastics. We are in a high state of alert. Our comrades who were on night duty report…
Contributor:
Uri Avnery
Places:
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Zionist movement in Pinsk expanded and developed, and some of the best [local] activists concentrated their efforts there. Activities, such as lectures, debates, and the sale of Shekels and Jewish…
Contributor:
Ḥayah Weizmann-Lichtenstein
Places:
Pinsk, Russian Empire (Pinsk, Belarus)
Date:
1904