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Her mother shed a tear or two but wasn’t really
crying. It was the thing to do, so she did it
enjoying every moment. The bride laughed when I
sympathized, and said don’t be silly.
Her brothers had…
Contributor:
Nissim Ezekiel
Places:
Mumbai, India
Date:
1962
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[While the song from the radio can still be heard, Israelsits motionless, in such a way that it is hard to tell whether he is checking a test, thinking, or is just sunk in his place. Later, suddenly…
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Avraham Raz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1972
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I have the good luck to be a Polish Jew.
If I were a Greek Jew, a Dutch Jew, a Turkish Jew, or some other kind of Jew, I would be miserable. Who would pay any attention to me and who would be…
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Moyshe Nudelman
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1947
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Ros:We could play at questions.
Guil:What good would that do?
Ros:Practice!
Guil:Statement! One-love.
Ros:Cheating!
Guil:How?
Ros:I hadn’t started yet.
Guil:Statement. Two—love.
Ros:Are you counting…
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Tom Stoppard
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1966
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Rue Sainte-Catherine, people turned as we passed. Probably because of my father’s purple suit, his Kentucky green shirt and the same old shoes with the astrakhan spats. I fondly…
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Patrick Modiano
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1968
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Thus I went to all the tsadikim and I heard what they say in secret, and I also took the letters that they or those who serve them sent to one another and they didn’t see, because by means of the…
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Joseph Perl
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1819
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Berdichev, Russian Empire
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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Jacques Offenbach
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1880–1881
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In a faraway land over the seas
Lived a clever and wise king, if you please.
His name was not easy to say unrehearsed
King Leonard-Ferdinand-McCourt the first.
We’ll take on the public’s prudent…
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Efrayim Sidon
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1976
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Eric A. Kimmel
Places:
Portland, United States of America
Date:
1989