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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
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Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Alsace, France)
Date:
1849–1853
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As for me, I was born in Tsviatshits and my name is Mendele the Book Peddler. Most of the year I’m on the road, travelling from one place to another, so people know me everywhere. I ride all over…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Berdichev, Russian Empire
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1864–1865
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Žitómir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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What I like about Catholic Heaven (I’d say Christian Heaven, but I’m afraid of making a mistake; I know very little about Evangelicals and Seventh Day Adventists) is that it has well-defined limits…
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Alicia Steimberg
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1992
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If am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Some people thought he was cracked and for a time he himself had doubted that he was all there. But now, though he still behaved…
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Saul Bellow
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1964
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[ . . . ] Braendel dragged the poor woman into the smoky room, which stank of sweat, beer, and wine, and cried out in a loud voice, “Aren’t you ashamed, you children of honest Jews, to drink and…
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Alexandre Weill
Places:
Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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[ . . . ] The sofer’s work is poorly compensated. There is an old proverb about how the soferim never grow wealthy in the land of Israel. I don’t know who gave birth to that pearl detached from the…
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David Schornstein
Places:
Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
Date:
1864
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The Moshava of Pardes-Hannah is the place I come from, but since I left it, my eyes have been turned away from it, as if I couldn’t look at it. Until I went to the army, the Moshava was a whole place…
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Ariel Hirschfeld
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2000
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Act II, Scene 3
Jezebel [Goes up to meet Ahab]:You have seen a conversion yourself? Do tell me!
Ahab [Bewildered]:Oh Jezebel! I am dying! I cannot breathe!
[Sinks into a chair.]
What is this? Am I…
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Avraam Papo
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(Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
Date:
1898
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Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there lived a poor Jewish family in a small Lithuanian village. The oldest son, Borukh, had to go to the forest every day to gather dry twigs for…
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Joseph Heftman
Places:
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912