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There were two reasons why Di Yunge chose to carry on by themselves in a separate cafe. One was purely financial. The coffeehouse on Division Street was too dear for young writers, most of whom either…
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
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FriendshipIt isn’t as easy as they sayMaking friends right away,I went down to the playground today,To sit alone while others play.The girls were having lots of fun,Playing hopscotch and jumping rope…
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Tirtsa Atar, Michal Effrat
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…
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Alexander Baerwald
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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ca. 1912
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In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…
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Eric Mendelsohn
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
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Abraham Uri Kovner
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1868
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The resolution of the heder commission and the OPE [The Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia] Committee indicates that our task went far beyond the limits of a…
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Felix Shapiro
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Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1912
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Though construction ended in 1888 after eight years, the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg was not consecrated until 1893. The grand, imposing building, which…
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1893
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The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
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Helene Sheinberg
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1913
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Ladies and gentlemen!
We can say that time has passed and pens have dried up. Misery is our destiny and the West utilizes it as a tool to ensure our silence. The West manages and shapes our destiny as…
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Esther Azhari Moyal
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Ottoman Empire (Lebanon, Lebanon)
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1912
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The Israel Museum complex was designed to harmonize with its surroundings. Its low, flat-roofed buildings with facings of Jerusalem limestone were intended to resemble an Arab village on a hilltop…
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Alfred Mansfeld
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1965