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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1730s–1740s
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When I got back to the hotel at five-thirty Bennett was waiting. He didn’t ask me where I’d been, but he put his arms around me and started undressing me. He made love to me, to Adrian’s slime, to our…
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Erica Jong
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Autumn came and Father decided to put an end to the growing hostility surrounding us. We were already isolated, friendless, and bankrupt, deep in the heart of a cold, gray season. I was still going to…
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Aharon Appelfeld
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1978
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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
Places:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Date:
1994
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Nazie’s whispers, farhiz, farhiz, before falling asleep had availed nothing—the laughing demons sneaked into Flora’s belly, pinched the baby’s bottom and pulled his ears. The sharp edge of the knife…
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Dorit Rabinyan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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Weary from the journey, confused by what she was seeing, shaken by the vicissitudes of the day, and straining to repress her rage, which was getting away from her in spite of herself—and always…
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Savyon Liebrecht
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1986
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Belonging to Hannah (?) daughter of Azaryah.
Places:
Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Late 8th or Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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A dull, rhythmic tremor thudded inside the room over and over again, as if someone was pounding on the wall behind her head with his fists. She sat up in bed and tried to get up. After several vain…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1991
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By Abraham’s virtue and merit,
turn toward us with compassion;
from on high have mercy upon us,
my Lord, and my redemption:
Hear my voice in the morning.
Have mercy on the people you’ve chosen…
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Freyha bat Abraham
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First Half of the 18th Century
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A poem that I, Sa‘adia Longo, wrote to an important and wealthy man from Nicopolis, who came here to Salonika to marry a woman. I was not able to participate in his celebration because I was…
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Sa‘adia Longo
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century