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This Assyrian-style monument commemorates the death of Josef Trumpeldor, who was killed by Arabs in 1920 at the Jewish settlement of Tel Hai. His heroic death and the idea of “one against many” became…
Contributor:
Avraham Melnikov
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Tel Hai, Mandate Palestine (Tel H̱ay, Israel)
Date:
1934
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Berl Katznelson did much to foster the awareness of “Yizkor” and its literature in the twenty years after Tel Hai, through an explicit reference to the chain of Jewish martyrology and heroism and a…
Contributor:
Emanuel Sivan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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When we consider the quotidian life of our society, it is impossible to ignore the phenomenon of “avoidance”; namely, it seems that the public at large is unwilling to think too much about the…
Contributor:
Fishel Schneersohn
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Huldah, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
Contributor:
Yigael Tumarkin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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So condolence visits is what they’re here for,sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious faceat the Wailing Wall,laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.They get themselves…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974