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Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. This, then, is the line of Jacob:
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1900
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People like to get something for their money, doing business is entertainment as well, and indeed there would be precious little fun to be got out of life in Polana if it were not so. It is equally…
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Ivan Olbracht
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1937
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I had not tasted anything all day long. I had made no preparations on Sabbath eve, so I had nothing to eat on the Sabbath. At that time I was on my own. My wife and children were abroad, and I had…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
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Isaiah Spiegel
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Republic of Poland (Poland)
Date:
1946
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Always, by the time the humid, breathless, summer night lifted its veil and a quiet, rosy dawn emerged, when some glimmers of soft, opaque light began to filter through the dried muddy, dusty window…
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Dovid Mitzmacher
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1926