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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…
Contributor:
Moacyr Scliar
Places:
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date:
1980
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In her death agony—which lasted no more than an instant or two—Nazira Mualdeb reviewed the months preceding her granddaughter Alcira’s wedding and a torrent of ghostly images spontaneously abandoned…
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Teresa Porzecanski
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Montevideo, Uruguay
Date:
1994
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The house known today as the House of the Sun is a large stone structure next to the synagogue. But long, long ago it was called the Devil’s Head, and it was…
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Yuspa Shamash
Places:
Worms, Free Imperial City of Worms
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
1696
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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1880
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Marilyn Hirsh
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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We should praise God eternally and proclaim His wonders, for He is revered and venerated by pious souls. He is powerful both on earth and in Heaven. His praise is unfathomable, no one can laud Him…
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Elye Bokher
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1507
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To think of the culture brought over by the immigrant Jews as a “mere” folk culture is a patronizing error, though an error often indulged in by later generations of American Jews. There was, of…
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Eliezer Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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It is said: A thread of grace is spun and drawn out of the deeds of Israel, and the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, in His glory, sits and weaves—strand on strand—a tallit all grace and all mercy…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908
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The wife of Potiphar would frequently speak to her husband in praise of Joseph’s chastity in order that he might conceive no suspicion of the…
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Louis Ginzberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1909
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…
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Yankev Morgenshtern
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1870s or 1880s