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Papyrus, rolled, folded, and sealed, Elephantine, Egypt, 5th century BCE. See also Papyrus, Rolled and Sealed. The Elephantine papyri provide historical documentation about the members of a Jewish…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Persian Period, 5th Century BCE
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Ekron, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, 7th Century BCE
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Our point of departure in historical research is the basic tenet that the development of social life depends on the development of the means of production that are ultimately determined by…
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Tuvia Heilikman
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
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1926
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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…
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Saul Borovoi
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Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1928
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Samaria ostracon (A Shipment of Wine), early 8th century BCE, from the ruins of a building near the royal palace. The text can be read here.
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Samaria, Land of Israel (Kaleh Qaţār-e Soflá, Iran)
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First Quarter of the 8th Century BCE
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So, Mr. Blum?
So, Mr. Blau?
What’s with you, Mr. Blum?
What should be with me, Mr. Blau?
How should I know what’s with you, Mr. Blum? I’m asking you. May I not ask? Why are you staring so?
I’m staring…
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Karel Polácek
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Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1926
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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…
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Dovid Bergelson
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1928
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It is a great pleasure for me to have this occasion, offered to me by the serial La Luz, to inform readers of the current situation in the Republic of Mexico, and to mention some of the reasons why…
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Albert Avigdor
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1922
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1925
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This carte-de-visite photograph was made at a time when photographs the size of visiting cards were popular. Some were mass produced, for sale to the public. People collected and traded photographs of…
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Alberto Henschel
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Salvador, Empire of Brazil (Salvador, Brazil)
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ca. 1869