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Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Older people still remember it. Younger people know about it from reading our classic writers of the older generation: how Jews once gave much thought to naming a child, long before it was born and…
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Moyshe Altman
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1968
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Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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1950
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1. The lives and times of Oedipus and Elektra
began with bloodgrim lust and dark carnality
but I was born next to the Neilson’s factory
where every piece is different, and that’s how I got
my…
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Phyllis Gotlieb
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Toronto, Canada
Date:
1960
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The American Jewish community is only beginning to come to terms with the meaning of this prostitution of Judaism to the status quo, and it is doing so…
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James A. Sleeper
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1971
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
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Sholem Asch
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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David Yellin, The Moriah Association
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1908
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
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Puah Rakovsky
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1942
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Again the herd throngs the village gateways
and dust rises up from the dirt roads.
And farther still a pair of clappers
keep pace with the lengthening shadows.
Evening descends, evening descends.
A…
Contributor:
Oded Avisar
Date:
1960