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In the meantime, they reached HaYarkon Street. The three couples climbed on their bicycles again and said goodbye. From afar, a fire siren was heard, the usual background music of Lag BaOmer. Merav’s…
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Shulamit Lapid, Shemuel Bunim
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1975
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Defining and establishing Mizrahim as Edot haMizrah served to prevent, until the early 1980s, any attempt to create a collective Mizrahi identity as an alternative to the general Israeli identity…
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Sami Shalom Chetrit
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2004
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The process that ultimately enabled women to serve as pleaders in the rabbinical courts began thanks to the initiative of one woman, Ruth Margarit Neiger of Raananah…
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Yoram Kirsch
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2002
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I was going to publish this novel under another name.
If I sought to hide its true father, it was not because I was ashamed of the son, but because books with my name on them…
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Ariel Dorfman
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Santiago, Chile
Date:
1981
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“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
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Tatiana Akhtman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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Politishes verter-bukh (A Dictionary of Political Terms) is an anonymous work billed as “an interpretation of the strange words that are used in Yiddish newspapers, journals, and political and…
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1907
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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The war broke out in its full might; it was a matter of life and death. The nation was expending all of its energies. The wondrous accomplishments of Israel’s heroes had been for naught. Jerusalem was…
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Rachel Yanait
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1909
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[ . . . ] Got together with Werner this afternoon; he wants me to become active in the [Social Democratic] party. Had a discussion about historical materialism that was quite interesting to me. [ . .…
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Gershom Scholem
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1915