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Rebecca:You, Sir, are the cause of his great impudence.
Isaac:Am I really the instrument?
Rebecca:Yes, for you love him for four birds of flight [he hunts for you]. You very much relish the stew he…
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1699
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Great was the joy in the mid-1950s in Budapest’s Klauzál Square, in the house of a widow with many children. Those lining up before her vegetable stand in the market saw her smile for the first time…
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Gábor Deutsch
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Budapest, Hungary
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1997
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There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She…
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Allegra Goodman
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1998
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Translated by Noa Stollman.
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Etgar Keret
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000
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Leiba recognized that Fraydel was in danger of disappearing down the well of her own thoughts.
Fraydel was a secret keeping herself from the world. When she spoke, it was yet another way of keeping…
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Rebecca Goldstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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The parting was not long in coming. My father died two months before I turned six.
To this day, I go to him at difficult times. Mostly to complain that he abandoned me. The handful of memories that he…
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Shimon Sandbank
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2004
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
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1948
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Madame Perrin told them that her son had died a hero’s death in Normandy as the Germans advanced; she had received permission to visit his grave. She complained at great length about the cost of this…
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Irène Némirovsky
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Paris, Military Administration in France (Paris, France)
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1942
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(Short Poems in Prose)
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Yosef Kirman
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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The dreadful angel in me is invisible
today, his screeching almost still.
You startle at its whisper. Is it
someone come to pay a visit
or a grasshopper tapping at the sill?
It’s he. Oh, he is…
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Miklós Radnóti
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Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943