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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
Contributor:
Hirsh Bloshtein
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
ca. 1930
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He didn’t take it seriously the first few times his roommates suggested that he start peddling images of Jesus, of Yoshke, as he preferred to call him. He thought they were kidding. How could they be…
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Pinkhes Berniker
Places:
Rochester, United States of America
Date:
1935
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This episode occurred on Deribasov Street, about two years after the beginning of our story.
At that time our editorial office was located at the upper end of the street, in the…
Contributor:
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1935
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Przemysl, Second Polish Republic (Przemysl, Poland)
Date:
1936
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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1936
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“It was my fault, Sammy. I aggravate you when you’re tired,” she said, sitting up and drawing his head to her. “I shouldn’t even have mentioned Ev. We ought to go to your family this year. It’s only…
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Meyer Levin
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1937
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
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Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
Contributor:
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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[ . . . ] From the other side of the fence was heard a murmur of Jewish voices as of people praying aloud. On a carpet before the door of the courtyard sat Murad Khan, and…
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Sholem Asch
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Lajos Kelemen was an upright and honest man throughout his life. He arrived in this world in June, thereby sparing his mother the ever-present concern whether or not he would catch a cold while being…
Contributor:
Erno Ballagi, Jeno Nádor
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1921