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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
Contributor:
Armand Lunel
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Monaco-Ville, Monaco
New Haven, United States of America
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1926
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“God’s writing engraved on the
tablets”—read not harut (engraved)
but herut (freedom).
—Sayings of the Fathers VI, 2
Among all the problems of present-day Jewish life, that of youth’s attitude…
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Martin Buber
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1919
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The first man, Adam, lies in the grass,
And spits at a passing cloud,
Humbly, the cloud says, “Adam,
Please, would you cut that out.”
But Adam sticks out his tongue
And…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…
Contributor:
Jacob Katz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1958
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All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…
Contributor:
Naomi Frankel
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Bet Alfa, Israel
Date:
1967
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One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
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Paul Ghez
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(Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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Shenandoah’s mother proceeded to explain in detail how insurance was a genial medium for a man like Mr. Baumann. The important thing in insurance was to win one’s way into the homes and into the…
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Delmore Schwartz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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[Gordon and Zhivago were on their way home in the evening. The sun was going down.] In one village [they passed through] they saw a young Cossack surrounded by a crowd…
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Boris Pasternak
Date:
1956
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“It was then the morning of the second day of the war in Jerusalem. The horizon paled in the east. We were at the climax of the battle on Ammunition Hill. We’d been fighting there for three hours. A…
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Yoram Taharlev
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1967
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God’s grace has surely been overabundant.
Riches were mine. Hardly a day would pass
When human sympathy did not alight on me
Like manna from the sky.
I cupped my slender fingers to receive it
Ironic…
Contributor:
Yuli Daniel
Date:
1969