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[ . . . ] For the whole day after I received your letter, I had the same celebratory mood that one feels after a cleansing and encouraging spiritual moment. Yet I am too weak to hold on to it. In…
Contributor:
Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1916
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[ . . . ] There is, however, a point to which I would like to draw your attention, and that is the undeniable success of our agricultural colonization, particularly our oldest effort, colonization in…
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Narcisse Leven
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Paris, France
Paris, France
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1907
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This drawing and the following replica of a pillared house are composites of many excavated houses from the Iron Age, 1200 to 586 BCE; none has been discovered standing. The images show domestic…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Iron Age, 12th–6th century BCE
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Upon your nakedness a white day celebrates,
You who are [so] poor and so rich,
A wall of mountains has frozen,
Transparent like a deceptive vision,
Attached to the horizon.
Noon. The vastnesses of…
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Esther Raab
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Cairo, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1923
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I have not sung to you, my land,
And I have not glorified your name
With acts of valor,
With booty of battles;
My hands have planted just a tree
On the quiet Jordan shores,
My legs have trodden down…
Contributor:
Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
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Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine (Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1926
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May my lord, the governor/commander, listen to the word of his servant! As for your servant, your servant was harvesting in Hatsar-asam. And your servant harvested and finished/measured and stored it…
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Meṣad Hashavyahu, Land of Israel (Yavneh, Israel)
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Late 7th Century BCE
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Permit me first of all to express my deep appreciation to the president of the Argentine Rural Society for his kind introduction.
I feel extremely honored to be…
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Aaron Pavlovsky
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1910
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Just as King David combined his ability as warrior with his sacred liturgical activity, so nowadays physical exercise done to provide the Nation with strength and the spiritual exercises of the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1904–1914
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This trip abroad to study the function of women’s agricultural schools was accomplished via a partnership of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce with the Humanitarian Society, which, at the end…
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Aurelia Josz
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Milan, Kingdom of Italy (Italy)
Date:
1905