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Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
Contributor:
Yaacov Shavit
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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Vichy. An American car stops by the Parc des Sources, opposite the Hôtel de la Paix. Its bodywork is spattered with mud. Two men and a woman get out and walk toward the hotel entrance. The two men are…
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Patrick Modiano
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1978
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Traveling and returning. In the
Dirt paths of her forehead
Railroad trains anchor, yellow
Carriages locomotive flowers
In the fields of liberated Europe
Traveling and returning. In the shadows
Betw…
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Oded Peled
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1993
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It was agreed that Grandfather and I would go forth at midnight of 1 July. This would present us with fifteen hours. It was agreed, by everyone except for Grandfather and I, that we should travel to…
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Date:
2002
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The whole day
In the roads’ realm
The whole day
Facing only wind
Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder
Just young lids between sun and eye
What in the world
Can be more beautiful?
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Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
Places:
(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1925
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“No,” said Golder.
He moved the shade with a brusque gesture, so that the lamp light fell full on the features of Simon Marcus, who sat opposite him, at the other side of the table. For a…
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Irène Némirovsky
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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No sooner had he laid his head on the pillow that he was fast asleep. His insomnia of the night before, his great fatigue on the sailing date, and the ship’s swaying in the waves—all combined to…
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Amnon Shamosh
Places:
Kibbutz Ma‘ayan Barukh, Israel
Date:
1972
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After a long stay in the city, I was glad to go out, to travel as far as the Sharon, full of eagerness for fields, colors, green light. But to my misfortune, I fell into a crowded bus, crammed…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1944
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Uri Shulevitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1978
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So condolence visits is what they’re here for,
sitting around at the Holocaust Memorial, putting on a serious face
at the Wailing Wall,
laughing behind heavy curtains in hotel rooms.
They get…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974