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Immediately I grabbed the man, gripped him, pressed him to me with all my stomach muscles, the way a carpenter, after applying the metal vise to the cupboard that suddenly collapsed, twists and…
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Hamutal Bar-Yosef
Places:
Riverdale, United States of America
(Beersheba, Israel)
Date:
1990
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I won’t be around forever, Mother said.
One day I’m going to die, so I might
as well nag you a little bit more,
while I have the chance. And when
I’m dead you’ll have to rely on someone else
to tell…
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Hal Sirowitz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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Household of eight.
Beds are two.
When it gets late,
What do they do?
Three with father,
Three with mother:
Limbs
Over each other.
When it’s night
And they go to bed,
Mother begins
To wish she…
Contributor:
Avrom Reisen
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Abel Pann
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1948
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There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an…
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Biblical Period
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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
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I entitled this volume Em Habanim Semeḥah [Psalms 113:9], based on the Jerusalem tractate of Berakhot (toward the close of the second chapter) which portrays Erets Yisrael as the mother of Israel and…
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Issachar Shlomo Teichtal
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943
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(Short Poems in Prose)
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Yosef Kirman
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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The dreadful angel in me is invisible
today, his screeching almost still.
You startle at its whisper. Is it
someone come to pay a visit
or a grasshopper tapping at the sill?
It’s he. Oh, he is…
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Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943