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Boy’s house. Boy. Three soldiers. The Boy is wounded all over. Twitches. Finally falls silent.
Pale Soldier:He dead or just—?
Flushed Soldier:Dead.
Pale Soldier:’Cause if he’s not dead—
Flushe…
Contributor:
Hanoch Levin
Places:
Palo Alto, United States of America
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1997
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From the balcony, Fuad was heard to groan, “That’s all we need today. Ya rab, that’s all we need.”
Shoshana was frightened. “What’s happened?”
“Come see.”
Her two sons hurried before her. Over their…
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Sami Michael
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1977
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Almighty ruler of armies, you who reign mightily
In heaven and on earth, I raise my prayer to you
From the depths of a mother’s heart.
Turn your presence toward me
And hear me in your mercy.
Follow…
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Fanny Neuda
Places:
Loschitz, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1855
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And Hannah prayed:
My heart exults in the Lord;
I have triumphed through the Lord.
I gloat over my enemies;
I rejoice in Your deliverance.
There is no holy one like the Lord,
Truly, there is none…
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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
Contributor:
Zseni Várnai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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To the sacred memory of dear Shmulik and his comrades who fell in the battle to liberate Yeḥi‘am
He rose from the bed shading his eyes with his hands as if it was light although it was still dark…
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Yehudit Hendel
Places:
Merẖavya, Israel
Date:
1950
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After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and…
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Moshe Shamir
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1953
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Crags in the mountains facing us
are like bereaved mothers
who long ago altered their image:
dew does not slake them,
the sun does not gild them.
—How terrible their silence
and where can we flee?—
A…
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Ayin Tur-Malka
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1972
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At five o’clock in the morning our commanders stormed into the dormitories to wake us. No morning gymnastics. We are in a high state of alert. Our comrades who were on night duty report…
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Uri Avnery
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1948