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Artist Unknown
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Bucharest, Austrian Empire
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1859
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The question arises: How did my mother, who, with her first husband, the feldsher, resided in spacious rooms, with brass handles on the doors, come to be with Father, a village Jew who…
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Yehoshua Perle
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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My grandfather’s kinsman, a Jew who tamed bears,
Performed in the market towns;
By day his beast was confined in chains;
At night, they danced under the stars.
Nicknamed “Ten Commandments,” the man…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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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, France)
Date:
1942
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1948
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No sooner had he laid his head on the pillow that he was fast asleep. His insomnia of the night before, his great fatigue on the sailing date, and the ship’s swaying in the waves—all combined to…
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Amnon Shamosh
Places:
Kibbutz Ma‘ayan Barukh, Israel
Date:
1972
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Benleví: [while he speaks, Sara enters with the slippers] All they do in the synagogue is talk about Ishmael.
Sara:[bent over, putting on the slippers] They seem to forget that they’re there to talk…
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Isaac Chocrón
Date:
1963
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In truth Ezra is still very young, but sometimes these marriages are the ones that turn out best. I used to think it was a crime to do this to these children, but I see so many marriages for love…
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Marcos Ricardo Barnatán
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Madrid, Spain
Date:
1971
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
Places:
Trieste, Holy Roman Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794
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Nighttime at the home of I. L. Peretz, and Shimon (aka Bernard) Kratko appears like a vision. Who masterminded an audience with Peretz, I can’t tell you, but it was all that mattered now, as if…
Contributor:
Jehiel Isaiah Trunk
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1949