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It was agreed that Grandfather and I would go forth at midnight of 1 July. This would present us with fifteen hours. It was agreed, by everyone except for Grandfather and I, that we should travel to…
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Date:
2002
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I had not tasted anything all day long. I had made no preparations on Sabbath eve, so I had nothing to eat on the Sabbath. At that time I was on my own. My wife and children were abroad, and I had…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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1933
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Hanging her corals on the night she leaves
silent, possessing nothing.
A moon dives, a splash extinguished
in a wall of water.
Alone, just herself, the path
blown clean with white godhead
twists…
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Yocheved Bat-Miriam
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1941
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Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…
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Samuel Pecar
Date:
1954
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“Shalom and good morning everyone, allow me to extend a warm and of course respectful welcome to you, our honored guests, on behalf of Viva Travel, on this Down Memory Lane package tour, including a…
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Gábor T. Szántó
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
2004
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Scene I. A Valley with a neat Cottage on the right, an Arbour on the left, and picturesque Mountains at a distance.
Enter from the cottage, Jasper and Jenkins.
Jenkins:
And so, neighbour, you…
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Mordecai Manuel Noah
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1819
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Gadhi, A Paria
Maja, his Wife
Benassar, Indian Attendant
Contributor:
Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
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Yaacov Shavit
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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Vichy. An American car stops by the Parc des Sources, opposite the Hôtel de la Paix. Its bodywork is spattered with mud. Two men and a woman get out and walk toward the hotel entrance. The two men are…
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Patrick Modiano
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Paris, France
Date:
1978
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Traveling and returning. In the
Dirt paths of her forehead
Railroad trains anchor, yellow
Carriages locomotive flowers
In the fields of liberated Europe
Traveling and returning. In the shadows
Betw…
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Oded Peled
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1993