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Selridge:Epstein’s next. I want to hear what his last week on earth would be like. Probably wants to take an English exam at City College.
Eugene:It’s your turn, Arnold.
Epstein:There’s no point to…
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Neil Simon
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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I hesitate to sound immodest,
So I must warn you in advance,
If you will listen now in earnest,
Then please excuse my stance.
More startling than other words,
And I will use this…
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Reuben Kulisher
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1849
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Laws are always tainted by the passions and the prejudices of the legislator.
—Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
In 1807, Mordecai Blum, his wife Rebecca, and his son David were living in a…
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Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1841
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The pride of the Germans was Kinderlyn. He was taller even than Leona Lakner, and he carried a very small head on a huge body. He was a real actor; he was said to be a member of the Dresden…
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Rodion Markovits
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Kolozsvár, Kingdom of Hungary (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Date:
1928
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Why weren’t my family evacuated? Well, at the beginning nobody thought the Germans would get as far as us. Of course, there was the first shock of their sudden attack and their rapid advance, but…
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Anatoli Rybakov
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Moscow, Russia
Date:
1978
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Hate Hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought.
But Corporal Irmin, first, and later on
The O.C.(Flying), Wing Commander Briggs,
And the station C.O. Group Captain Ormery—
Now there were men were…
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Howard Nemerov
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St. Louis, United States of America
Date:
1987
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I am beginning to get used to the years of war. We seem to struggle through the same journey from first of January to first of January, in a nightmare that is itself beginning…
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Mihail Sebastian
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1943
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Dearest Kitty,
Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters…
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Anne Frank
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Amsterdam, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1944
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
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Arnold Zweig
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French Republic (France, France)
Date:
1916
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For the past four years I had not seen the morning sun. The newspaper work generally ended about three o’clock in the morning and who can go to sleep right after work? After work one…
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Avigdor Hameiri
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1929