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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…
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Psoy Korolenko
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Moscow, Russia
Date:
2003
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The author of the book in question hides behind various pseudonyms, which are promptly presented as voices from the beginning of time and as figures both familiar and strange: for he is himself a…
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Edmond Jabès
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Paris, France
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1976
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871–1873
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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1892
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
Contributor:
Hélène Cixous
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
2001
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To think of the culture brought over by the immigrant Jews as a “mere” folk culture is a patronizing error, though an error often indulged in by later generations of American Jews. There was, of…
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Eliezer Greenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech and hopes, and…
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Yehonatan Geffen
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1981
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He is tall, strong, angular; his appearance as well as his speech give the impression of boldness and vigor. His voice is a high tenor ringing with mettle. And even in his quiet moments he resembles a…
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Moissaye Olgin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1918