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Shlomo reclines within his shrine
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
Everyone knows how he is
Nobody knows about me
Woe to my days, woe to my nights
As if it means something to anybody.
If I have a…
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Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1963
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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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- To perform their work in the workshop for three complete years from the day of their entry, not to cease at all during this tenure, and not to be hired by another artisan, neither as an apprentice nor…
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Sha‘are Torah Technical School
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1907
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I have been considering for a long while responding with my opinion on the law and the truth concerning occasional improper events that occur thus. For years wars have raged between kings, as is well…
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Raphael Samuel ben Jacob Arditti
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1890/91
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1683
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Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many colours, and at dawn lead me to [my] toil.
My land is wrapped in light as in a prayer shawl. The houses stand forth like frontlets; and the roads…
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Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1927
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime, certainly…
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Zalman Shazar
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Berlin, Germany
Weimar Republic
Date:
1918
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The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
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Shmuel Yavnieli
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1913
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Written down while working in the fields, patterned after the Arabic working song and sung to that tune.O I have my life and my labor!Yah ḥai li, li-hah-‘amali!Awaken, my brothers, there’s no time…
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Bar-Nash (Noah Shapiro)
Places:
Zikhron Ya'akov, Ottoman Palestine (Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1895