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Bernardo Tzalkin stood there as though he had just been drenched with a bucket of cold water. Perplexed, at a loss for words, he tried to ask the doctor whether the boy could possibly get out of bed…
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Salomón Zytner
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1955
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Lauren Greenfield
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1993
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
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Joseph Bibas
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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Early 16th Century
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Kingdom of Prussia
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1869
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Three weeks before Sammy’s thirteenth birthday Papa came in too upset to eat.
“Tonight when I come out of schule the rabbi wants to talk to me. ‘Max, my heart is like lead to tell you this,’ he says,…
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Budd Schulberg
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1941
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Night ThoughtsThat night, I had the weirdest thoughts. I don’t know why, but suddenly I thought to myself how great it is for a boy to have a bed as comfortable as my own. He can lie in bed and get a…
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Galila Ron-Feder
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1985
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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…
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Moacyr Scliar
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
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1980
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I belong to the generation that celebrated its bar mitzvah during the Six-Day War. Then, in 1967, the surging energy of our adolescent hormones was coupled with the intoxication gripping the entire…
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David Grossman
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Mevaseret Zion, Israel
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1987
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Bukhara, Russian Empire
(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
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Early 20th Century
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This wooden tevah—a stand or reader’s platform used for supporting Torah scrolls—was made and used in Yemen. It was the practice in Yemen for boys to become active participants in synagogue services…
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Artist Unknown
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18th Century