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To thee I come, O long-abandoned god
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee whose reign was in a greener world
Among a race of men divine with youth,
Strong generations of the sons of earth:
T…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
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Heidelberg, German Empire
(Heidelberg, Germany)
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1899
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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1932
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About Grzhebin on canvas, about Grzhebin in the flesh.Since the letter is written in a penitent mood, the trademark of the Grzhebin Publishing House is affixed. Here too are several…
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Viktor Shklovsky
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1923
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
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Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
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1925
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A dialogue in the land of the living between our teacher, R. Moses Maimonides, the Spaniard, and our Teacher Moses, son of Menaḥem [Mendelssohn] of Dessau, and an anonymous third person.
On the day of…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1794–1797
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The relationship between the lovers had already lost much of its intimacy when the couple was blessed with a thriving son. This event reawakened the count’s feelings of tenderness for the mother of…
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Sara Hirsch Guggenheim
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1863–1864
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And the resistance, I will be asked: Where is the resistance? Could it be that the heroes are gathering in the shoe factory or in the freight yard, at least a few? Is it possible that at the ghetto’s…
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Jurek Becker
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East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
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1969
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
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1844
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1779
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But all this came to an end one night. In almost every one of his novels, Warszawski retells the scene in the winter of 1944 when he came home at three o’clock in the morning, after a night of dancing…
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Maxim Biller
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1990