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“No I say; enough is enough! On their behalf I prayed, for their benefit I cried my eyes out. Enough! I say, no! May I be struck dumb if I will say one more word, not even my name, Gnesye.” She had a…
Contributor:
Rokhl Brokhes
Date:
1922
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You, my dear, will survive me and remember.
How could it be otherwise?
—From a letter
Old people? What can you write about old people?
They barely feel anything!
—From a conversation
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Dina Kalinovskaya
Date:
1980
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The cheeks collapsed and the eyes half-shut,
My mother listens as her knees sigh:
The whole morning under the winter sky
She ran about to every market.
So let us now at the gate of the wall
Sleep…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
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Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Ashgabat, USSR (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)
Stalinabad, USSR (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
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Date unknown, 20th century
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Michael Iofin
Date:
1984
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My beloved son and daughter!
I am writing these lines, my dear children, in the vale of tears of…
Contributor:
Elhanan Elkes
Date:
1943
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
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David Khait
Date:
1928
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. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…
Contributor:
Mark Egart
Date:
1933–1934
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A Gift to Hofshteyn
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Aharon Kushnirov
Date:
1922
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Pass on, pass on, you lonely grandfathers,
With frightened beards covered with snow,
In the last sorrow, in the final grief
You’re still here, the final witnesses.
Pass on, pass on, you lonely…
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Izi Charik
Date:
1926
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He, Meyer, during all the days when they prepared Wanda for the journey (according to regulations, the women had to take along shoes, clothing…
Contributor:
Der Nister
Places:
Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1943