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Moshe Mizrachi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1902
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
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Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925–1926
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
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Sh. Horonczyk
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Sixty years ago, Jacob, who was known in his quarter as Old Jacob, was living in the rue de la Mortellerie. He ran a successful business selling old clothes, scrap metal and even, on occasion, old…
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Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1841
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Those matters discussed in an earlier issue dedicated to the practice of indolka inspired the distinguished writer to write this fine article.
Everything that I am relating here is neither eloquent…
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Saliman Menahem Mani
Places:
Hebron, Ottoman Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
1885
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Hillel the Babylonian, the important teacher of Israel, was poor and needy, and his daily income consisted of half a zuz. One half of this he used for food, the other half he…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Date:
1916
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At first Berka had avoided Hershl, but the latter persisted in his visits to Berka’s workshop, ignoring his deliberate rudeness. While Hershl spoke to him Berka hammered away at his last in silence…
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Rose Zwi
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1980
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During the bitterest days of my European exile, I turn to the photo album where I keep, along with more recent memories, a few images from my childhood—images that enlarged and corrected, come back to…
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Reina Roffé
Places:
Madrid, Spain
Date:
1999
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Nazie’s whispers, farhiz, farhiz, before falling asleep had availed nothing—the laughing demons sneaked into Flora’s belly, pinched the baby’s bottom and pulled his ears. The sharp edge of the knife…
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Dorit Rabinyan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995