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Aunt Feiga is making jam today. She has to hurry. The raspberry season will soon be over. So Aunt Feiga is all in a swivet; she has bought a huge bowl of raspberries and fifteen pounds of sugar and is…
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Zalman Shneour
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
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1929
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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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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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ca. 1719
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If we should lack nothing else than veils, it would be all right.
May peace and healthy days be your lot always; to you, my much beloved daughter, may you live long, you who are pious and virtuous…
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Reisel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times).
Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others.
If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
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ca. 475 BCE
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Aron maintained confident hope in one child. To this day, it remains uncertain whether or not this hope was fulfilled, but you can’t talk to him about it.
The transport that led from the Bohemian…
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Jurek Becker
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East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1976
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All of a sudden the wicket opened and a lot of people entered all at once in a jostling mass, and Daddy was there too, clutching the milk pan in one hand and the iron bar in the other. They had…
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S. Yizhar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992
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“The birds, Regina! The birds! The birds!” he cried out. “You don’t hear? Our child…Issachar!…Issachar!…Regina!…That bird…Issachar…that bird…that bird.…”
When Luna entered the room with her bridegroom…
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Dan-Benaya Seri
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1987
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He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one.
“After the war,” he says, “I saw a film…
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Carl Friedman
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1991
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My father lived to be ninety-eight, and until the end of his life he never failed to introduce my sister and me with a grand gesture as his “two disappointments.” We were, very simply put, an…
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Ruth Gay
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1996