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It is possible to see the promise of a beginning of Levantine literature—rooted in the realities of the Middle East and influenced by European culture—in Le livre de Goha le Simple [Goha the Fool] by…
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Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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The God of Israel is not rich.
I saw the Sistine Chapel,
Notre-Dame, the Cathedral of Cologne—
You can feast your eyes on them, you can enjoy.
The God of Israel is stingy.
He won’t fill his museum…
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Aaron Leyeles
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
Places:
São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a…
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Edmond Jabès
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1976
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The cell is narrow. When I stand at its center, facing the steel door, I can’t extend my arms. But it is long, and when I lie down, I can stretch out my entire body. A stroke of luck, for in the…
Contributor:
Jacobo Timerman
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1980
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Every article you’ve done for us, Phil,” Minify had said, “has a kind of human stuff in it. The right answers get in it somehow.”
Sure. But he hadn’t asked for them and pried for them. When he’d…
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Laura Z. Hobson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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I was out of the cavern no more than a minute, taking a last look around the square at the minarets, the moon, the domes, the Wall, when someone was shouting at me, “It’s you!”
Standing in my path was…
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Philip Roth
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1986
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There’s a marvelous story by Eduardo Stilman about a silver samovar. It caressingly describes the prodigious object—its polished ebony handles, finely carved arabesques, mischievously-turned spigot…
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Edna Aizenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1997
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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…
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Elliot E. Cohen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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I trust that none of my remarks will be understood to say that assimilation is not now, or has not always been, a great threat to the Jewish group. In a sense, the problem of assimilation is as old as…
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Gerson D. Cohen
Places:
Brookline, United States of America
Date:
1966