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Franz Kafka was commonly considered to be an assimilated Jew, and, at face value, his writings have nothing to do with Judaism. However, on closer examination, even though one would not necessarily look upon Kafka as a religious writer, many Jewish ideas can be seen in his work.
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Ilan Bloch
Anti-Semitism
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Four Israeli women writers discuss life, literature, politics.
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Dana Ruppin
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Literature
Israel
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Israeli Arabs
Judaism
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Jewish Women
Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Shmuel Yosef Agnon are the two masters of Modern Hebrew Literature -Bialik in verse and Agnon in prose. The distinctive and unrivaled artistry of each, notwithstanding, an examination of some shared aspects of their literary activity places their accomplishments in sharp focus.
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Daniel Grossberg
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Until God decides one day to pay his debt to humanity and bring down food again from heaven, if not a little piece of bread from the mouth of hell, most folks must survive and make-do with the little they have.
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Elazar Larry Freifeld
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Sharonah's latest offering explores the world of journalism, anthropology and of course, Israel. Amongst other things, she argues that journalism can reflect the culture in which it operates, just as well as a good book.
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Sharonah Fredericko
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Israel
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Advocacy
Media and the Press
Our movement's bulletins discussed anything and everything -from nuclear disarmament and ethical relativism to the future of religion and, of course, Zionism.
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Mordechai Beck
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Zionism
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Zionism and the Diaspora
This is part of a series of fictional stories which examine a variety of social dilemmas in Israel. In this story, the author examines the issue of unemployment in the south of Israel.
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Guy Schultz
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Literature
This is the first in a series of fictional stories which examine a variety of social dilemmas in Israel.
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Guy Schultz
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A little corruption is good for the soul, and Christopher Marlowe’s 'The
Jew of Malta' is not a saint, not by a longshot! Purity is reserved for virgins
and prophets; the one soon to be corrupted, the other, it would appear, soon to
be reformed. Contrary to Shakespeare's Shylock, in 'The Jew of Venice',
Barabas, the anti-hero of this remarkable play written in 1588, is neither a
devil nor a prophet in need of redemption.
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Elazar Larry Freifeld
Anti-Semitism
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He saw her carrying a sign in French protesting the American involvement in
Vietnam. She was pretty, but then there were many good looking girls in the
demonstration. This one caught his attention more than the others, but there was
no point in dwelling on her for too long. For a second he thought she looked at
him, but he wasn't sure.
Hank had been in Paris for three days. He had been to the tourist sights and
had done a lot of walking. Now seeing his American counterparts in a
demonstration made him feel that his kind of people existed here as well. The
same jeans and long hair, the same arty looking girls. The men looked like
friends, the girls held promise.
'What the hell, I'll join them,' thought Hank.
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Mordechai Kramer
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The Portuguese writer José Saramago's statements have awakened anger in
different sectors of Israeli society. At the request of the Hagshama website, the
famous Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua replies to the Portuguese Nobel Prize
winner, while Israeli readers and bookkeepers are organizing themselves to
establish a boycott against Saramago.
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Gabriel Ben Tasgal
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Two of the greatest writers of the last century, Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce, illustrated the dilemmas of modern day humanity by focusing on the plight of the Jew: for Borges and Joyce, the Jewish condition was the perfect metaphor for a deeper understanding of the individual and society. Despite the two writers’ very genuine appreciation for the Jewish spiritual and intellectual tradition, they have not been granted sufficient attention in the Jewish world. In this informative piece, Gustavo Perednik sets out to set the record straight.
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Gustavo Perednik
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Jan 1996 Within Jewish folklore there is no city more famous then Chelm (discounting Brooklyn, of course). It being Purim and all that, sit back and relax like our forefathers did with a decaf capuchino and a doughnut. Enjoy, it's Purim! What else are you going to do?
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Eli Birnbaum
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R. Yohanon said: Through all the days of that righteous man, he was troubled about the meaning of the verse "A Song of Ascents. When the Lord brought back those that returned to Zion, ,we were like unto them that dream" (Ps. 126:1)
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Cholent: Little bit O' this, Little bit O' that
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Jewish Texts
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