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Friendship
It isn’t as easy as they say
Making friends right away,
I went down to the playground today,
To sit alone while others play.
The girls were having lots of fun,
Playing hopscotch and…
Contributor:
Tirtsa Atar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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How is a song born?
Like a baby.
At first it hurts
But then, it comes out
And everyone is happy
And suddenly—
How wonderful!
It’s walking
All on its own.
How is a song born?
Like…
Contributor:
Yehonatan Geffen
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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Listen, Jewish children, and I will tell you a story about a penknife. It’s not a made-up story, but a true story that really happened to me. There was nothing on earth I yearned for as much as I…
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Sholem Aleichem
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(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1887
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In those days, but especially since the year 1740, when Frederick the Great ascended the throne, various social circles in Berlin began zealously to acquire intellectual knowledge. Even among…
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Isaak Herzberg
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(Inowroc?aw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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The little blue butterfly was born in the red bell of a morning glory. She had been a caterpillar before that and had lived for a while in a cocoon, but she could remember nothing about it.
She peeped…
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Anna Lesznai
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(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Hillel the Babylonian, the important teacher of Israel, was poor and needy, and his daily income consisted of half a zuz. One half of this he used for food, the other half he…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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(Germany, Germany)
Date:
1916
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Now we resemble a city under siege, one whose enemies swarm toward it from all directions.
And if, in the meantime, we are forced to confront the tanks armed only with Molotov bottles, then we must…
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Esther Streit-Wurzel
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1976
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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They are taking me to the town to go to school—let them take me. I will show them how I will learn there; and they ought to know this already, haven’t they seen and also…
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Rosa Jaffe
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1902