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Land of Israel
Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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Judaism
The story of ecstasy that produced the most famous Jewish song in the world.
Diaspora
On November 2nd, 1917, a declaration that changed the course of history was published.
Diaspora, Land of Israel
Levi Yitzchak Schneersohn is not the first name which enters our minds when we hear the name N.I.L.I, but his diary gives us a glimpse into the activities of the first Jewish espionage organization in the Yishuv.
We have an original copy of the 20th Machine Gun Squadron soldier’s journal from the First World War.
The famed escape artist, illusionist, and séance buster, was also intensely proud of his Judaism.
Photographs of the life and work of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as a politician and family man.
In the late 1870s an emissary traveled across the United States, from sea to shiny sea, from one Jewish community to another, to collect charity fellow Jews in the Land of Israel
In 1883 Lazarus wrote the poem that greets new immigrants to America till this very day.
When Dr. Irving Halperin wrote to David Ben-Gurion in the summer of 1968, the response contained a few surprising anecdotes about the Jewish State’s first prime minister.
During Hermann Burchardt’s travels to Yemen in 1901, he came upon one of the most isolated and forgotten communities of the Jewish people. The photographs he sent home caused a sensation throughout the whole of European Jewry.
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