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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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I dream that I’m standing in the doorway of my house, and I hear shouts, but I don’t want to go in. I’m eleven years old, and my hair is braided down my back.
A man asks me in the language of my…
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Perla Suez
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
2000
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Mr. Beringer, whose son
fell at the Canal that strangers dug
so ships could cross the desert,
crosses my path at Jaffa Gate.
He has grown very thin, has lost
the weight of his son.
That’s why he…
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Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1974
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In Jewish folklore the sight of a water carrier bearing one or two full pails is an omen of good fortune; empty pails foretell bad fortune.
The funeral’s early, the concert is late.
I go to both…
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Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, our God,
King of the Universe,
Who has kept us and protected us,
and supported us until this day
it would be better we had never seen.
You deprived us of nothing,
neither…
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Boris Khersonsky
Date:
1996
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Even after the mourning period was over, when the flat was finally empty and my father and I locked the door and were alone together, we hardly talked to one another. Except about the most essential…
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Amos Oz
Places:
Arad, Israel
Date:
2002
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Hermann Struck
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1905
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The object of this publication, an Ethiopian text, is taken from a book of Falasha prayers which I acquired from Dabtarà Bàrok, a Jewish man of letters, in Adenkato. It contains the…
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Jacques Faïtlovitch
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1906
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Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.
The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed…
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Stefan Zweig
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917