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[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
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David Daiches
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New York City, United States of America
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Date:
1956
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Oh shit. Everything has abruptly gone dark, I am feeling strange and cannot see anything. The beach, I am going to the beach, I packed a frosty beer for after my run, something is wrong. Oh shit, I…
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Albie Sachs
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1990
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…
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Claudia Roden
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New York City, United States of America
(Hampstead, United Kingdom)
Date:
1996
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I cannot linger in Egypt. They that came before me tarried too long. I have had the taste on my tongue and the dead air in my nostrils. Enough. That will serve.
Zagazig…
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Louis Golding
Places:
Manchester, United Kingdom
Date:
1928
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Anti-Semitism in my infancy, had its compensations, for being confined practically to children (I speak of anti-Semitism not as a subjective attitude but in its…
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William Goldman
Places:
Vienna, Nazi Germany
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1940
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The journal is my life, my companion and my confidant. Without it I would be lost. In it I pour out all my heart’s feelings, until I feel somewhat relieved. When I am angry and…
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Chaim A. Kaplan
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941
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For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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George Steiner
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1966
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[ . . . ] I have always felt it as a particular honor that a man of such outstanding importance as Theodor Herzl was the first to champion me publicly from his exposed and therefore responsible…
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Stefan Zweig
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London, United Kingdom
(Petrópolis, Brazil)
Date:
1942
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The months of which I am about to write are probably amongst the most painful in my whole life; I interrupted my work on the book for a long time trying to summon up the courage to embark on this…
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Ilya Ehrenburg
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1966
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He was late.
Under normal circumstances, she would have considered it a minor annoyance, a matter of a dinner grown cold, or a delay in helping the children with their homework, or an errand that…
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Glenn Frankel
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1999