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Muhammad was tall and swarthy with a thin elongated face. His hair was dark; his black beard covered his chin; his eyes were black and deep with a spark of exhaustion, of despair, that flickered…
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Moshe Smilansky
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1906
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He was learning about the Jewish festivals from Leo. The arrival of the new year was suddenly upon him, and that’s when he decided that fasting on Yom Kippur would be a fine adventure. The…
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Bernardo Verbitsky
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1941
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
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1946
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Nahum Luboschez
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(Russia, Russia)
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1910
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Once there was a stroke of misfortune.
The day it happened, Mother couldn’t stop cursing this wretched life. Something occurred that almost caused Father to hang himself out of pure shame. After that…
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Isaiah Spiegel
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1946
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How and with what will you fill
Your cup on the day you’re free?
Will you in your joy still
Hear the scream of the past
Where the skulls of chained days
Clot in bottomless pits?
Searching…
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Abraham Sutzkever
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1943
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There was a mysterious jar on one of the shelves. It contained about twenty gray, hard, colorless, tasteless little rods and did not have a label. This was very strange, because it was a German…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
Date:
1975
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Wherever we stand to lift our eyes to heaven, that place is a Holy of Holies.
—S. Ansky
The sun descending settling
on the roof of the synagogue.
The cantor faces the open Ark,
His exhausted voice…
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Herman Taube
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Rockville, United States of America
Date:
1986
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I had not tasted anything all day long. I had made no preparations on Sabbath eve, so I had nothing to eat on the Sabbath. At that time I was on my own. My wife and children were abroad, and I had…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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1933
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People like to get something for their money, doing business is entertainment as well, and indeed there would be precious little fun to be got out of life in Polana if it were not so. It is equally…
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Ivan Olbracht
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1937