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On Saturdays, and on unusually busy days when my father could not take the time to come home to the noon dinner, it became my duty to take his midday meal down to him, very carefully packed in a large…
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Edna Ferber
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1939
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There was no doubt of it, the dark coat on the rack could mean only one thing: a guest had arrived, an unusual guest at that, because the coat was stern-looking, grim, quite unlike the coat that…
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Péter Nádas
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1986
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The Moshava of Pardes-Hannah is the place I come from, but since I left it, my eyes have been turned away from it, as if I couldn’t look at it. Until I went to the army, the Moshava was a whole place…
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Ariel Hirschfeld
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2000
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The parting was not long in coming. My father died two months before I turned six.
To this day, I go to him at difficult times. Mostly to complain that he abandoned me. The handful of memories that he…
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Shimon Sandbank
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2004
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Even if I consider myself too much of a big shot to set foot inside a synagogue for fifteen minutes—which is all he is asking—at least I should have respect enough to change into decent clothes for…
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Philip Roth
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1969
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Those who seized the youths to put them into the army in the city where I was born, desired to have, as a residence for themselves, a house adjacent to the one in which my father…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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Dubno, Russian Empire (Dubno, Ukraine)
Rivne, Russian Empire (Rivne, Ukraine)
Białystok, Russian Empire (Białystok, Poland)
Date:
1880
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Seven versts from Kaunas stood the oldest fortress in Lithuania. After the war, it was all battered and shot up. Bricks and scraps of iron lay strewn about the place, which had once stored weapons and…
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Khane
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Kovno, Republic of Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1932
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I saw my father drowning
In surging days.
His weak hand gave a last white flutter
In the distance—
And he was gone.
I kept on alone
Along the shore,
A boy still,
With small, thin legs,
And have…
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David Vogel
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Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1923
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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
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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My mother and I are out walking. I ask if she remembers the women in that building in the Bronx. “Of course,” she replies. I tell her I’ve always thought sexual rage was what made them so crazy.…
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Vivian Gornick
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1987