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Emmanuel Evzerichin
Date:
1943
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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…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
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Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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The rinsed fences dry themselves in the wind.
The kneaded black earth turns softer under my feet.
Soaked soil, tousled and wanton wind,
What more can I want from you today?
It seems to me that I’ve…
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Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…
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Josef Zelkowicz
Places:
Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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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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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…
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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…
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Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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Helen Levitt
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1979
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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,…
Places:
Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
Date:
ca. 475 BCE
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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
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719