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19 August 1943
Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…
Contributor:
Calel Perechodnik
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1943
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Three weeks before Sammy’s thirteenth birthday Papa came in too upset to eat.
“Tonight when I come out of schule the rabbi wants to talk to me. ‘Max, my heart is like lead to tell you this,’ he says,…
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Budd Schulberg
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1941
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Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Her Yoysef was hanging on the shaft of the well. His beard lay humbly on his breast. His fallen shoulders and feebly dangling hands expressed the most profound hopelessness. What can I do? A stone has…
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Rivke Rubin
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1943
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Gray as a dove, toward evening, my grandfather came from the pasture;
He made up his bed and said a prayer of confession,
Then inwardly bade his farewell to the world
And closed his eyes, utterly…
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Moyshe Kulbak
Date:
1929
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here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him that i
Translated by Stephen Mitchell.
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Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1970
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Ronnie:Everything has broken up around you and you can’t see it.
Sarah [shouting]:What, what, what, you mad boy? Explain what you mean.
Ronnie:What has happened to all the comrades, Sarah? I even…
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Arnold Wesker
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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Duddy drove to Montreal the next morning, picked up his stuff, and returned to Ste. Agathe by bus the same evening. Yvette met him at the station. “Hey,” he said, “did you see the paper? They raided…
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Mordecai Richler
Places:
Toronto, Canada
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1959
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They were neighbors for many, many years. Thirty, forty, maybe half a century . . . ever since Colony D . . . was established back at the beginning of the eighteen-nineties.
Their parents grew up…
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Natalio Budasoff
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1962
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Shylock:You speak of revenge, you who cage us within ghettos, you who cast us alive into flames, only because we are Jews. [Pause.] Are not Jews and Christians alike fashioned in the image of God…
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Maurice Schwartz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947