Showing Results 1 - 10 of 28
Public Access
Text
[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
Contributor:
José Kozer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
Contributor:
Hélène Cixous
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
2001
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Even in the narrative prose written by native Hebrew speakers towards the end of the 1940s, writers who hardly knew any foreign language and who were assuming positions at the center of the literary…
Contributor:
Itamar Even-Zohar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1980
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:
. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German…
Contributor:
Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
This is a book about East European Jews in crisis, challenge, and creativity from the end of the eighteenth century until their cataclysmic destruction in the Second World War.
In the sixteenth…
Contributor:
Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1967
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1913
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
Contributor:
Avram Naon
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
Contributor:
George Steiner
Places:
Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1985
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In solitary confinement it was forbidden to bathe, but when I got to my cell I washed my hands, face, and upper body well and lay down to sleep. This time I slept for about an hour and a half. At six…
Contributor:
Zvi Preygerzon
Date:
1960
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language has been assembled on the basis of inclusiveness—that is to say, as a dictionary which attempts to record and include all the words of the Yiddish language…
Contributor:
Yudl Mark, Judah A. Joffe
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1961