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It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up.
It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
Contributor:
José Rabinovich
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1937
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Abishag. Little, young, warm Abishag.
Shout into the street: King David is not yet dead.
But King David wants to sleep and they won’t let him.
Adoniyahu with his gang shout my crown off my gray head…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1926
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They are all seated in the parlour once again.
Alice:Alright, I have another idea. I propose we go around and describe the scene on New Year’s Eve one hundred years ago. What do…
Contributor:
Michael Redhill
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
2001
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In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
Contributor:
Adrienne Rich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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Most people are very wary of life, and try to avoid it. The conventional ways of doing this are many and varied:
Don’t drop bread on the floor!
Don’t waste…
Contributor:
Amos Kenan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Contributor:
Harvey Pekar
Places:
Cleveland Heights, United States of America
Date:
1978
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I run on the bridge
and the children follow
Yonatan
Yonatan they call
a little blood
just a little blood to finish up the honey
I’d let them pierce me with tacks
but the children want
and they are…
Contributor:
Yona Wallach
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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At a time when the worship of the dead letter degenerated into idolatry; at a time when men passed their lives in counting the verses, the words and the letters of the Law, at a time when the official…
Contributor:
Adolphe Franck
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1843
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[ . . . ] Braendel dragged the poor woman into the smoky room, which stank of sweat, beer, and wine, and cried out in a loud voice, “Aren’t you ashamed, you children of honest Jews, to drink and…
Contributor:
Alexandre Weill
Places:
Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am…
Contributor:
Adrienne Rich
Places:
Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1972