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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
Contributor:
Binyamin Tenenbaum
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
with me and my father
my right hand in his left.
A knife flashed between the trees like lightning.
And I’m so scared of the fear in my eyes…
Contributor:
Amir Gilboa
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1953
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She turns the pages, naked uncles
so naked and skinny, run and
even aunties with fannies showing
and others in pajamas as in a show
with yellow cloth stars sewed on.
And everybody so ugly and thin,
a…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1968
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I really like it when it rains in the morning, before school, because then, there’s this atmosphere of winter. Outside, it’s cloudy and pretty dark, and in the classroom and hallways you suddenly…
Contributor:
Gadi Taub
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992
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The shaving of hair has a startling effect. The absence of hair transforms individual women into like bodies. Indistinguishable. Age melts away. Other personal differences melt away. Facial…
Contributor:
Livia Bitton-Jackson
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
Date:
1997
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Dad and Nimrod had an agreed-upon whistle. When dad whistled that whistle, even from a distance, Nimrod would immediately leap up from his place and race toward him. Dad said that this was the whistle…
Contributor:
Yaacov Shavit
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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God has pity on kindergarten children,
He pities school children—less.
But adults he pities not at all.
He abandons them,
And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours
In the scorching sand
To reach…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1955
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Stealing the TigerThe moment she entered the room, she noticed something suspicious out of the corner of her eye. Dror and Koby stood next to her bed and pretended to tie their shoelaces. She knew…
Contributor:
Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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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…
Contributor:
S. Yizhar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992