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The sea
tore a rib from its side
and said:
Go! Lie down there, be
a sign that I
am great and mighty.
Go
be a sign.
The canal
lies at my window,
speechless.
What can be sadder
than water
without…
Contributor:
Malka Heifetz Tussman
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Date:
1965
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When I got back to the hotel at five-thirty Bennett was waiting. He didn’t ask me where I’d been, but he put his arms around me and started undressing me. He made love to me, to Adrian’s slime, to our…
Contributor:
Erica Jong
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!
Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.
Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and…
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Anat Gov
Places:
Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Date:
2001
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During the bitterest days of my European exile, I turn to the photo album where I keep, along with more recent memories, a few images from my childhood—images that enlarged and corrected, come back to…
Contributor:
Reina Roffé
Date:
1999
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Edie:You got it. I can’t be a woman and I can’t be a Jew. And I can’t be either, because I can’t be both. So, you know what I’m gonna be? I am gonna be nothing.
Else:Oh, I see, you call all of that…
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A Traveling Jewish Theater
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies”
whose wish is to attend to studies,
and her name is the gentle Dinah:
She seeks counsel from the wise
for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…
Contributor:
Samuel Archevolti
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1553
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I too wish to marry a desperate housewife
Blur my way into her house with the evening light
The aromas of salad and an omelet cooking
To live in the shade of her becoming
To have her raise me like…
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Agi Mishol
Places:
Gedera, Israel
Date:
1991
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This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1620
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They present me with the bill
For not having been satisfied,
And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon.
They ask me for a receipt for my fate,
And they make me think,
That…
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Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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convicted, with her husband,
of “conspiracy to commit
espionage”; killed in the
electric chair June 19, 1953
Contributor:
Adrienne Rich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1981