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At the time Iván Mihalkó called on me after my adventure in the forest to say that his father wanted to see me, I was not yet acquainted with Peméte, and had never heard the name of the…
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Béla Illés
Date:
1933
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There’s a stale, sour stench: a miscellany of heaped-up vegetables and fruits, cheese, fried fish, sweaty bodies, thighs, urine, and belching drunks. The smell sneaks harsh but titillating into the…
Contributor:
Meir Corona
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1939
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Did you know that The Jewish Voice almost became a defendant in a trial concerning the Press Act?
My fellow community members wanted to sue it.
Never have my fellow community members ever sued anyone…
Contributor:
Žak Konfino
Places:
Leskovac, Yugoslavia
(Leskovac, Serbia)
Date:
1934
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[ . . . ] After the intractable insolence shown by Süss when his sentence was pronounced, he was fettered cross-wise in the Chamber of Nobles, where he was to be confined until execution, and kept…
Contributor:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1925
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Duddy drove to Montreal the next morning, picked up his stuff, and returned to Ste. Agathe by bus the same evening. Yvette met him at the station. “Hey,” he said, “did you see the paper? They raided…
Contributor:
Mordecai Richler
Places:
Toronto, Canada
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1959
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Being rich is no picnic. It’s no good to be wealthy, especially in Mexico. You get what I’m saying? It’s no good!
When people talk to me, they suck up to me, all smiles and flattery: It’s señora Tinif…
Contributor:
Abraham Weisbaum
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1959
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This episode occurred on Deribasov Street, about two years after the beginning of our story.
At that time our editorial office was located at the upper end of the street, in the…
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Vladimir Jabotinsky
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1935
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Przemysl, Second Polish Republic
(Przemysl, Poland)
Date:
1936
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I must first briefly describe human nature. Namely, we people contain within us the four fundamental [elements] like all other species of creation that are below us or inferior to us. It…
Contributor:
Matheus Staedlein, Isaac Wetzlar
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(Celle, Germany)
Date:
1749
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On the day of Walter Rathenau’s funeral in 1922, all mail and telephone service in Germany was suspended between 2:00 and 2:10 pm
“If he won’t honor our invoice, I’ll simply give him a buzz. Put the…
Contributor:
Kurt Tucholsky
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922