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What I like about Catholic Heaven (I’d say Christian Heaven, but I’m afraid of making a mistake; I know very little about Evangelicals and Seventh Day Adventists) is that it has well-defined limits…
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Alicia Steimberg
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1992
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The old Bat Shlomo, the one to the south of the road, is a very small village, just a handful of old houses set among tall trees. Here and there a tractor is parked under an asbestos lean-to. Chickens…
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Amos Oz
Places:
Huldah, Israel
Date:
1982
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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
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Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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The immigration of the Yemenites has halted. Over the past year, some two hundred and fifty to three hundred Yemenite families have settled in the colonies. The internal migrations of Yemenites from…
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Shmuel Yavnieli
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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A whole world of railways appeared in our time
They carry their passengers—poor men and rich.
Admire the wonder, but bear this in mind:
It’s really a parable, meant just for you.
It is we who are…
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Elyokum Tsunzer
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1875
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Permit me first of all to express my deep appreciation to the president of the Argentine Rural Society for his kind introduction.
I feel extremely honored to be…
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Aaron Pavlovsky
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1910
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Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
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Saul Borovoi
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1928
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
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Meir Shalev
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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It took me twenty years to love
this hole in the middle of nowhere.
The cotton balls spread a white flame
and there was an ill wind in the cypresses
until for the first time I saw,
with a just eye,
t…
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Shimon Adaf
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1997