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The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…
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Egon Erwin Kisch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1924
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Santino:What, does it seem to you, is a comedy, who was its first author, what is its purpose, is it rendered in verse or in…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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ca. 1565
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I was going to publish this novel under another name.
If I sought to hide its true father, it was not because I was ashamed of the son, but because books with my name on them…
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Ariel Dorfman
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Santiago, Chile
Date:
1981
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He was a great entertainer but going insane. The pathologic element could be missed only by those who were laughing too hard to look. Humboldt, that grand erratic handsome person with his wide blond…
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Saul Bellow
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1973
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[ . . . ] We have nooses fastened around our necks; when the pressure abates for a moment, we utter a cry. Its importance should not be underestimated. Many a time in history did such cries resound…
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Gustawa Jarecka
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
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S. Y. Agnon
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1959
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After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and…
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Moshe Shamir
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1953
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Modern Yiddish literature focuses upon the shtetl during its last tremor of self-awareness, the historical moment when it is still coherent and self-contained but already…
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Irving Howe, Eliezer Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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In the tercentenary year of Jewish settlement in America, this volume is offered as evidence that the past decade—a mid-century point—has seen the publication of some of the most…
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Harold U. Ribalow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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Most of the stories in this collection are modern; a few are ancient. They were written in Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Russian and English, yet all are, to a discerning eye, very clearly Jewish. [ . . .…
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Saul Bellow
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1963