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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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The end of summer is approaching and we can feel it. The days are still hot, but in the evening, there is a strange smell, the smell of leaves decaying and smoke, the smell of autumn…
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Gonda Redlich
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Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
(Theresienstadt concentration camp and ghetto, Czech Republic)
Date:
1944
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To explain the verse with which we started, we will set forth another thesis. It is a custom in Israel—and custom has the status of Torah—for preachers to travel from city to city to rebuke the people…
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Zeraḥ Eidlitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1766
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“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
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Leopold Weisel
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Prague, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1847
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Before the law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1915
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
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1902
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So, Mr. Blum?
So, Mr. Blau?
What’s with you, Mr. Blum?
What should be with me, Mr. Blau?
How should I know what’s with you, Mr. Blum? I’m asking you. May I not ask? Why are you staring so?
I’m staring…
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Karel Polácek
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1926
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People like to get something for their money, doing business is entertainment as well, and indeed there would be precious little fun to be got out of life in Polana if it were not so. It is equally…
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Ivan Olbracht
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1937
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This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
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Franz Werfel
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1917
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Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis. Others again believe it to be of German origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both…
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Franz Kafka
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1917