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Almost before she was out of the cradle, Sonechka was a bookworm. As Efrem, elder brother and family satirist, never tired of repeating, “All that reading has given Sonechka a butt like a chair and a…
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Ludmila Ulitskaya
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Moscow, Russia
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1992
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…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment.
After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…
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Dina Rubina
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1996
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A moon full of shimmering honey,
Exuding joy.
What bird beats in my heart?
Fly away—away, but not alone.
What am I shy? What?
Thick empyrean wine.
I’ll take a wicker bottle,
To the cemetery alone…
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Elena Shvarts
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1980
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Anatoly Kaplan
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1960
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During the nineteenth century the lives of Jews in Russia underwent enormous changes. In pre-reform times most Jews lived in villages and small towns. Most were engaged in trade and…
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Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder
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1931
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His aged back bent under the burden of six decades, forever trying to crumple his weary countenance into furrows long since smoothed away, what possible kind of Aladdin is our old mutual…
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Abram Efros
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Moscow, Russian SFSR
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Boris Aronson
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Moscow, Russian SFSR
(Moscow, Russia)
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1920
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Mikhail Trakhman
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1942
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Felix Lembersky
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1944–1952
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David Petrovich Shterenberg
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1926