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When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted territories and took possession of the land. The people served the Lord during the lifetime of Joshua and the lifetime of the…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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In ascetic silence, in stony skirts,God’s handmaid falls on her face—Flash of an empty night, a forlorn desert waste,Shards of sunset upon the rocks.This land. Trodden, just like this, by a wandering…
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Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1936
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In the third year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, Hezekiah son of King Ahaz of Judah became king. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Madame Perrin told them that her son had died a hero’s death in Normandy as the Germans advanced; she had received permission to visit his grave. She complained at great length about the cost of this…
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Irène Némirovsky
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Paris, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Paris, France)
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1942
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He, Meyer, during all the days when they prepared Wanda for the journey (according to regulations, the women had to take along shoes, clothing…
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Der Nister
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Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
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1943
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Beyond the cloud upon the ocean
There’s a white and lonely sail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
I light a candle at my window
And its flame is shy and frail
Let us pray and hope
lu yehi
Let us…
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Naomi Shemer
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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We had more or less forgotten them. We wanted to convince ourselves, without really trying to find out, that the march of time had left them satisfied, happy, at peace. The quarrels provoked by…
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Henri Chemouilli
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1972
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The only garden left in our walled-up town was the old cemetery, whose earliest graves dated back to the thirteenth century. It was densely overgrown. Picking one’s way to its remoter corners meant…
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Piotr Rawicz
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Paris, France
Date:
1961
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We left slowly. The night was pale.
In the distance the lights flickered.
And you were all loveliness like your two eyes
With tears cupped in them.
The jackal howled as you went to the vineyard
You…
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Haim Hefer
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1948
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
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Mordecai Sheftall
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Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)
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ca. 1778–1779