Showing Results 1 - 10 of 12
Public Access
Text
A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…
Contributor:
Simon Gelberg
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1901
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
God’s grace has surely been overabundant.
Riches were mine. Hardly a day would pass
When human sympathy did not alight on me
Like manna from the sky.
I cupped my slender fingers to receive it
Ironic…
Contributor:
Yuli Daniel
Date:
1969
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I am not aware that the infancy of Vivian Grey was distinguished by any extraordinary incident. The solicitude of the most affectionate of mothers, and the…
Contributor:
Benjamin Disraeli
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1826
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
All things I can endure, save one.
The bare, blank room where is no sun;
The parcelled hours; the pallet hard;
The dreary faces here within;
The outer women’s cold regard;
The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…
Contributor:
Amy Levy
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1884
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
Contributor:
Israel Zangwill
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1892
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A moment of agonized suspense and Alvar Rodriguez stood at the window, the bar he had removed in his hand. He let down the string, to which Hassan’s now trembling hands secured the ladder and drew it…
Contributor:
Grace Aguilar
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1844
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
He came across the meadows towards the sunset, his upturned face pushed forwards catching the light, and glowing also with another radiance than the rich, reflected glory of the heavens.
A curious…
Contributor:
Amy Levy
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1889
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Let but the son of earth Remember from his birth That in the end He shall return: As at his birth he was, So shall he be.“Arise and prosper,” say ye unto himOf five years, whose…
Contributor:
Nina Salaman
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1910
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
There are two things I ought to make clear. First, almost as soon as she starts telling me about her career (as we wade through the sleet from the bus stop to the market), my grandmother declares that…
Contributor:
Masha Gessen
Places:
Moscow, Russia
Date:
1998
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
And now for my style. I must frankly confess that I have invented a new one. I am conscious of the hazard of such innovation, but I have not adopted my system without long meditation, and a…
Contributor:
Benjamin Disraeli
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1833