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I have set this stone as a weight, not as a memorial, over my wife’s grave, lest (God forbid!) she rise from the dead and come back home.
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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Lord, I want to return to your word,
Lord, I want to pour out my wine,
Lord, I want to go, to go to you,
Lord, I do not know what should be done,
I am alone.
I am alone in empty air,
In terror of…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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Over and over, when the wayside dust had grayed us,
And we came and knocked at another’s door,
He threatened us with his fist and gainsaid us:
This is not your place! Move on!
Over and over.
Over…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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Do you know who turns and returns?
Do you know the meaning of Atonement?
Do you know who watched for you by night,
Late, and in the early morning light?
Do you know who verges on Atonement?
Do you…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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At the end of King George Boulevard stood a tall building with two black, cavernous entrances. It served as a brothel, first for Arabs and later for Allied troops. When passing in front of this…
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Dan Vittorio Segre
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1985
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering…
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Primo Levi
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Turin, Italy
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1946
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
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Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (Trieste, Italy)
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1794
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Summer Evening is one of a series of photographs William Klein took in Rome in 1956 when he was there to serve as an assistant on a movie directed by Federico Fellini. Shooting was delayed, so the…
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William Klein
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Rome, Italy
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1956
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We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for…
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Emanuele Levi
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Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia (Asti, Italy)
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1822–1823
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This receipt with ornate Hebrew calligraphy was issued to certify a donation by members of Ferrara’s Jewish community to aid Jews in Jerusalem. The funds were solicited by the rabbi of a yeshiva in…
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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18th century