Of the 24 students of the Slabodka yeshivah murdered in the Chevron massacre, eight of them were Americans. This is their story. They were the first group of American yeshivah bochurim to go learn in Eretz Yisrael, but this wasn’t exactly the chavayah (experience) that yeshivah and seminary students seek out when they come to … Read more
Dutch-born author and journalist Pierre Van Paassen gives first-hand testimony of the 1929 riot in Hebron. This excerpt comes from his book Days of Our Years. Pierre Van Paassen was a non-Jewish advocate for Zionism in the 1930s and 1940s. He authored several books on the Land of Israel and the Jewish people including The … Read more
Translation of a letter a couple wrote to their children describing the Hebron massacre of 1929, by Rabbi Aharon Bemzweig and his wife Breine Bemzweig. WITH GOD’S HELP, Monday, week of the Torah portion Shoftinm Vshotrim, 5689 [September 2, 1929], Tel Aviv, may it be built up and firmly established speedily in our days. Amen. … Read more
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