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Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.
Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.
Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. W…
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Wendy Wasserstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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A street. At the right the entrance to the synagogue, with steps and a portico. At the left the house of Aaron, before which are some chairs, in the shade of an awning. Some trees and…
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Herman Heijermans
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1898
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George:They always leave the key under the windowsill. I told you so.
Bert:Ahuh.
[George goes to the doors and yells in front of each one.]
George:Mamma! Stephen! Mamma!
[No one answers. Pause.]
No…
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Osvaldo Dragún
Date:
1963
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I want to recount a beautiful tale. I ask that the men relax. Listen, and see how marvelous it is how merciful God restores justice for us.
Jacob:
He said to his son, I wanted to send you to find out…
Contributor:
Moses Samuel Konfino
Places:
Bucharest, Ottoman Empire
(Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1862
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…
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Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1873
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A big room divided in two by screens. One half represents a bedroom where Odele reclines sadly on a sofa. The other half represents Bontsye’s room: on a table lie a taytsh-khumesh [the Tsen…
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Abraham Goldfaden
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1893
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Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.
[She feels her way forward.]
[She shudders.]
The walls are sweating.
Tell me Bluebeard
Why this moisture on my fingers?
Walls and rafters, all are weeping.
[She…
Contributor:
Béla Balázs
Places:
Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
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Abraham Goldfaden
Date:
1887
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The Woman:I married him and he never gave me any trouble. His mother, she lives with us here. This house is his mother’s house. When we are there, together, in the other room, she lights candles here…
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Yehoshua Sobol
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976