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A perfumelike smell, which came from the low clumps of acacia trees, or “mimosas,” as some liked to call them, scented the air of the small Jewish colony in southern Palestine. In the expanse of sky…
Harvesting and threshing in Egyptian painting, from the tomb of Pa-heri (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 15th century BCE). In the lower register, on the right, reapers are followed by a woman and child…
Zikhron Ya‘akov was first established near the city of Haifa as an agricultural settlement in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from Romania. A year later, it became the beneficiary of philanthropist Baron…
The common names of plants used by different nations and languages were not coined by chance alone. If we examine the origin of these names, we find they are based on ancient legend and that the…
Dear colleague:
I received your letter asking me to send you clear information about the political situation, notably in regard to the Jewish national movement.
Do you not believe that it is still…
The Goal: To develop in our land a cadre of Jewish guards fit for this task.
The Means: 1. To organize the operating guards in the colonies.
2. To become acquainted with and to prepare in the colonies…
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…
Much has already been written about the Jewish colonies in the Crimea. Unfortunately, most of the information is buried under a mountain of statistics, historical data, and political…
Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
A foreign crawling black stain, that’s what he was—the kosher butcher—in the new, not yet completed, but sparkling white Jewish settlement. Leading up to the High Holidays, he chastised impiety at…