Chaim Nahman Bialik, who is recognized as the State of Israel’s national poet, wrote the essay “Halakhah and Aggadah” in 1917, in which he moves
It seems to me lately that every time I turn around, I find another community, institution, or organization dealing with Judaism in Israel that has
שָׁם יֵשׁ סוּפוֹת שָׁם יֵשׁ בְּרָקִים שָׁם יֵשׁ קוֹלוֹת וְאֶבֶן עַל עֵצִים שָׁם כֶּסֶף זוֹרֵחַ וְשָׁם יֵשׁ חַיִּים וּבָעֵבֶר הַשֵּׁנִי שׁוֹתְקִים וְנֶחְבָּאִים. שָׁם יֵשׁ תְּנוּעוֹת
Did it occur or did it not? “Were you there, or was it all a dream?” (to quote the poet Rachel). So we will ask
I would like to begin by going back one hundred years, to the end of 1919 and the beginning of 1920. The world was in
Masses of Gentiles in the Jewish State Close to the beginning of the third decade of the third millennium, during the first week of the
אנו מודים לקרן ד. דן ובטי קאן על תמיכתם בהוצאת כתב העת.
With thanks and appreciation to the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation for supporting this project.
