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I lowered the window more and let the wind wash my face. As often happens when you stand at the window of a fast-moving train, a speck of dirt flew into my eye, and both eyes began to tear.
I had…
Contributor:
Friedrich Gorenstein
Date:
1988
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Vichy. An American car stops by the Parc des Sources, opposite the Hôtel de la Paix. Its bodywork is spattered with mud. Two men and a woman get out and walk toward the hotel entrance. The two men are…
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Patrick Modiano
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1978
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It was agreed that Grandfather and I would go forth at midnight of 1 July. This would present us with fifteen hours. It was agreed, by everyone except for Grandfather and I, that we should travel to…
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Date:
2002
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment.
After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…
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Dina Rubina
Date:
1996
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Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:
Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that…
Contributor:
Elana Dykewomon
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Oakland, United States of America)
Date:
1997
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“No,” said Golder.
He moved the shade with a brusque gesture, so that the lamp light fell full on the features of Simon Marcus, who sat opposite him, at the other side of the table. For a…
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Irène Némirovsky
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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No sooner had he laid his head on the pillow that he was fast asleep. His insomnia of the night before, his great fatigue on the sailing date, and the ship’s swaying in the waves—all combined to…
Contributor:
Amnon Shamosh
Places:
Kibbutz Ma‘ayan Barukh, Israel
Date:
1972
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“When I get papa out of jail, we’ll join you. We’ll meet at Strasbourg, don’t worry,” Mama said.
When Alex heard about the entire matter, he said: “No, I don’t want to go. I want Mama.”
Alex was very…
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Ruth Almog
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Bnei Brak, Israel)
Date:
1999
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Riding a train doesn’t have to be dull if you manage to fall in with good company. You can meet up with merchants, men who know business, and then the time flies, or with people who have been around…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Geneva, Switzerland
Date:
1909