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In the middle of the summer Meir’s father gave in to his uncle and aunt’s pleas and went away with them to spend a week in the country, and in obedience to his request Meir went over to the apartment…
Contributor:
Yaakov Shabtai
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984
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Amid breathtaking bougainvilleas
I while away my time
One floor up Emilia’s
Flimsy lingerie is hanging on a line
Tiny hummingbirds hover
Around a wistful rose
A mouse caught in a saucer
Watch where…
Contributor:
Mikhail Grobman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000
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A crocodile cloud swallowed a cloud-cloud.
All is clogged
and where did the war go?
The pier is painted red and yellow
with the inscription: Tel Aviv.
The drums of the depths are indifferent.
In the…
Contributor:
Raquel Chalfi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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A week after we broke up, I allowed
Myself the pleasure of the dainties of pain.
This time without the luxury of tears.
I let it get worked up. In the throat,
In the heart. Who would have believed…
Contributor:
Ilan Sheinfeld
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1988
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Istanbul has been blessed with a unique geography. It is for this reason that a neighborhood appearing no larger than a pin on the map will reveal itself as a sprawling snarl of intricate lanes and…
Contributor:
Ilan Karmi
Places:
Istanbul, Turkey
Date:
1992
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Ben Katchor
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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[One] of the most evident features of New York photography has so far not been addressed by writers: the fact that, in every account, the great majority of the photographers concerned were or are Jews…
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Max Kozloff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere.
Thi…
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Shmuel Gordon
Date:
1966
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[ . . . ] I have always felt it as a particular honor that a man of such outstanding importance as Theodor Herzl was the first to champion me publicly from his exposed and therefore responsible…
Contributor:
Stefan Zweig
Places:
Petrópolis, Brazil
Date:
1942
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Shenandoah’s mother proceeded to explain in detail how insurance was a genial medium for a man like Mr. Baumann. The important thing in insurance was to win one’s way into the homes and into the…
Contributor:
Delmore Schwartz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940