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Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
Contributor:
Leah Goldberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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Meylekh Snitkever takes the heavy shears and looks at them silently. He holds them in both hands as if to weigh them. Then he shifts his stare to me, the muscles moving in his jaws, which are covered…
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Yekhiel Falikman
Date:
1945
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Mr. Finkelstein was still a young man, but as a Jew he was very old. He knew what was going on. He could hardly help knowing. Twice in the past three weeks, when he had come out of his house at six in…
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Arthur Miller
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1961
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The woman in charge came out of the children’s house and stationed herself on the grass, holding an infant in each arm. Children stood behind and in front of her, waiting for their parents, who were…
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S. Y. Agnon
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1971
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[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good…
Contributor:
Eileen Pollack
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
Contributor:
Armand Lunel
Places:
Monaco-Ville, Monaco
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1926
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All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…
Contributor:
Naomi Frankel
Places:
Bet Alfa, Israel
Date:
1967
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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…
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Delmore Schwartz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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Hester sat down quietly next to her mother, whose sewing went on and on, a mild substitute for conversation. For a while, Hester watched the long, important-looking shadows that encroached upon the…
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Hortense Calisher
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1950