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My heart is seeking out the Lord, and to Almighty God I pray
That He come back unto the altar, shelter me beneath His shade,
And that He settle Israel’s throngs in a tranquil dwelling place.
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Israel Najara
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Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
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Early 17th Century
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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End of the 17th Century
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In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1652
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All of a sudden the wicket opened and a lot of people entered all at once in a jostling mass, and Daddy was there too, clutching the milk pan in one hand and the iron bar in the other. They had…
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S. Yizhar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1992
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…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment.
After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…
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Dina Rubina
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1996
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The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
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Isaac Karo
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Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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Beginning of the 16th Century
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And praised be the Lord—the Sabbath came and rest came, on Friday night at five in the evening, the strong wind calmed a bit, and we sailed well on Friday, Saturday, Sunday; and on Monday, we saw…
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Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti
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Acre, Ottoman Empire (Acre, Israel)
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1741
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When an Israeli soldier dies in the line of duty, three officers come to your house and sit in your living room and tell you about it. Imagine how many times that scene has been played out in Israeli…
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Edeet Ravel
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Guelph, Canada
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2003
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The Israeli existence is new and experimental. Israelism comes from Zionism, based on the idea of the Jewish people’s return to its place. Israel is a Jewish place. Use of the term Jewish in…
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Gideon Aran, Zali Gurevitch
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1991
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[…] Must we conclude that Israeli society is doomed to experience a Kulturkampf, and that the Zionist synthesis is marching ineluctably toward its undoing? Before answering that question, let us…
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Aviezer Ravitzky
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997