Showing Results 31 - 40 of 78
Restricted
Text
I was born on Saturday, 7 March 1936, towards nine in the evening, in a maternity clinic located at 19 Rue de l’Atlas, in the xixth arrondissement of Paris. My father, I believe, was the one who…
Contributor:
Georges Perec
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1975
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
In the hot tranquillity of Sunday afternoons in Lusaka, beyond the shrill whistle of the cicadas and the drone of radio sports commentaries, we could hear the muffled thudding of tribal drums.
The…
Contributor:
Elaine Durbach
Places:
Maplewood, United States of America
Date:
1986
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I was born on 19 February 1758 in Nový Bydžov [in Bohemia] of well-to-do parents who destined me at birth to be a rabbi, a common practice among the Israelites then. For at that time, when all…
Contributor:
Peter Beer
Places:
Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1839
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
Contributor:
Solomon Maimon
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792–1793
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
Contributor:
Pauline Wengeroff
Places:
Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1913
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
One of the more bitter days of my life that I will never ever forget is the 17th Adar 5677 [11 March 1917] at dawn when I was already being sought [the authorities had already dogged my footsteps and…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Naḥmias
Places:
Ottoman Empire (Türkiye, Turkey)
Date:
1918
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
You understand, my sweet confessor, that I could be even more of a sinner than not, and I hope just the same for your absolution. In the meantime, I will tell you that after…
Contributor:
Ettore Schmitz
Places:
Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1896
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Sensitive Content
Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…
Contributor:
Anna del Monte
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1749
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
Contributor:
Dan Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Bread
Very early in the morning we went to pick up fresh bread at Doña Blanquita’s. However, before arriving at her house that resembled the generosity of her hands and clay ovens, we had to cross a…
Contributor:
Marjorie Agosín
Places:
Wellesley, United States of America
Date:
1995