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Merv:Sara, can I have my shirt? I’ve got a lunch date with the rabbi of Dublin.
Sara:Mervyn, you came all the way to Queen Anne’s Gate. Please sit a minute.
Tess:Sit down, Merv. I’ll get your shirt. W…
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Wendy Wasserstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
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Yehuda Amichai
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1961
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[ . . . ] It seemed to him that an eternal silence was closing down upon the Jewish breed marching to slaughter—that no heir, no memory would supervene to prolong the silent parade of victims, no…
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André Schwarz-Bart
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Paris, France
Date:
1959
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Looking at her, the coat and everything else seemed to him to be as clear and clean as the sky.
He had to step across the old man’s mattress.
He knew he would speak to him.
“Look after Anne’s things,”…
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Arnošt Lustig
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Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1962
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I do not want to see you in my dreams
each night. I do not want to tremble when I hear
a footstep at my door. I do not want
to think of you each hour of every day.
I do not want to see
in the…
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Leah Goldberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1952
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In winter, the rain beat down on the roof.
She said white was her favorite shade.
At hand he then gave her, his heart filled with joy,
A bunch of daffodils, fragrant and moist.
She laughed: “My dear…
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Uri Assaf
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1963
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Scene: The living room of the Herming family house. The walls of the home contain valuable paintings by many of the greatest nineteenth-century Danish national romantic painters.
State…
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Henri Nathansen
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Date:
1912
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Date:
1909
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Joyous, free, the bird will sing,
Trembles on his throne the king,
Trembling is not good for me—
Like a bird I sing so free,
As winds prance,
In a trance,
Wild and blind, I roam and dance,
One street…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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This story admittedly took place a long time ago and furthermore in a far-off land—in England, in fact. Yet in spite of everything, it is still important and worthy of being…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1889