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Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years. Ahab…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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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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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)
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1900
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That summer there was a famine in the Negev. From the beginning of winter until its conclusion, not even a single drop of rain fell. The floodgates (Genesis 7:11) were closed; they…
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Moshe Smilansky
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Rehovot, Ottoman Palestine (Rehovot, Israel)
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1906
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
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1909
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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)
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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)
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1933
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In sand and in water
You will yet raise expectant eyes,
Or eyes
As indifferent as death to machine-gun bullets and borders on maps.
Together with you
Yet another sought to escape
(At long last to…
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Noah Stern
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1943
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The year 5573 (1813) was a leap year (in the Jewish calendar). On the twenty-fourth of Nisan, the Sabbath right after Passover, after midday, the skies became overcast and…
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Jonah ben Gabriel
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Arbil, Ottoman Empire (Erbil, Iraq)
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ca. 1843
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She couldn’t have been more than seventeen years old. They came as war refugees. Survivors of the horror. The community was caring for the nearly cadaverous human beings and her parents wanted her to…
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Eugenia Calny
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1972