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At the time Iván Mihalkó called on me after my adventure in the forest to say that his father wanted to see me, I was not yet acquainted with Peméte, and had never heard the name of the…
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Béla Illés
Date:
1933
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King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…
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André Spire
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1925
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In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1865
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In Jewish folklore the sight of a water carrier bearing one or two full pails is an omen of good fortune; empty pails foretell bad fortune.
The funeral’s early, the concert is late.
I go to both…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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If I had to pick one defining moment in my Iranian life, it would be 5:00 a.m. one Friday in the fall of 1968. I was fifteen. Normally I woke to the sounds of a peddler selling green almonds and fava…
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Farideh Goldin
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Norfolk, United States of America
Date:
2003
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In April 1942, after months of probing and letter writing, Mother and Mrs. Gerber received letters telling them that Father’s troop was in a Russian prison camp. However, no word came from either of…
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Aranka Siegal
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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At home they called her “dummy” and other names like that because she was always so quiet and still, never stirring when she was called. When she was nine years old, she went to school and began…
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Celia Dropkin
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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If my father had been able to foresee even a thousandth part of the trials I was to endure he might have been rather less ardent on the night my mother conceived me. . . . Now, of…
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Isaac Joel Linetski
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1869
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Hebrew woman, who knows your life?
You came in darkness and in darkness depart.
Your sorrows and joys, your hopes and desires
Were born within you and die in your heart.
Daughters of other nations
Ma…
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Judah Leib Gordon
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1875
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Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!
Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.
Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and…
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Anat Gov
Places:
Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Date:
2001