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Concerning the matter of the ten tribes, my dear sir should know that in Egypt, there is a place that is called Sawakin, almost a thirty-day distance away—from there, some say it is a three-day…
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Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1527/28
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This will be the first of my addresses before the Zionist Congresses to deal not with the various questions involved in the upbuilding of Palestine but with the significance of…
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Arthur Ruppin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…
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Yosef Kaplan
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1982
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Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
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Uri Orlev
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1958
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In the days when the chieftains ruled, there was a famine in the land; and a man of Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the country of Moab. The man’s name…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1530s
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Miriam, Aristobolus and Dina.
Miriam:Mother!
Enter Alexandra, Miriam’s mother.
Alex:Your shouting will wake the dead. A little refinement, Miriam, you’re no longer a little girl.
Miriam:It…
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Edna Mazya
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000