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I was going to publish this novel under another name.
If I sought to hide its true father, it was not because I was ashamed of the son, but because books with my name on them…
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Ariel Dorfman
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Santiago, Chile
Date:
1981
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You, my master, my hidden enemy! I see you hidden
In the wind that is around all, in all, everywhere:
In my uneasy sleep, in my dark fear at morning,
In my labors by day, in my bread and my salt.
C…
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Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1920s
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“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
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Tatiana Akhtman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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In the meantime, they reached HaYarkon Street. The three couples climbed on their bicycles again and said goodbye. From afar, a fire siren was heard, the usual background music of Lag BaOmer. Merav’s…
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Shulamit Lapid
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…
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Josef Zelkowicz
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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While imprisoned by the Nazis and awaiting her death, Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger recalls her last supper with other resistance leaders in the Vilna ghetto.
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Gusta Dawidsohn-Draenger
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Kraków, General Government (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Arab Halva—moist, sticky, fibrous. The taste tears across my lips like a memory. Within me Jaffa stirs, wakens from sleep; eyes and faces of Jaffa.
I am there, it is afternoon, a city half-awake…
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Haim Gouri
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1971
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A Lion on his deathbed lay.
There’s truth in every word I say.
He was gravely ill indeed.
Then came to him a goodly host
Of all the forest-dwelling beasts.
They came most eagerly…
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Unknown
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Verona, Republic of Venice
Date:
1595
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One day Bereh turned up in the yard. An unseasonably warm glow coated the world, glazing the storm windows with an unexpected spring sheen. He walked slowly down the…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1931
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It was like this in the garden:
Ben Azzai looked and died,
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Akiba and I went forth in peace,
but they said I cut down the young plants.
I said that one is two…
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Norman Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2000