Showing Results 11 - 18 of 18
Restricted
Text
Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again.
Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace.
David…
Contributor:
Grete Weil
Places:
Munich, Germany
Date:
1988
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Pinkie:[Jumping up] Johnny, did you ever hear of The Marshall Plan? The Five Year Plan? The Morris Plan? Now listen to the Pincus Plan! Let’s give up the business!
Johnny:[With a quiet intensity, as…
Contributor:
Sylvia Regan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Esteemed by his bosses, envied by his friends, husband of an intelligent wife, owner of a lovely house, Si Bou-Djemaa might well have been happy if the desire for a new wife had not tormented him.
Tal…
Contributor:
Elisa Chimenti
Places:
Date:
1958
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
Contributor:
Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.
[She feels her way forward.]
[She shudders.]
The walls are sweating.
Tell me Bluebeard
Why this moisture on my fingers?
Walls and rafters, all are weeping.
[She…
Contributor:
Béla Balázs
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Although a beautiful shock of golden hair swings across her forehead
And love finds nourishment in her eyes
The chaste Susannah never strays from the right path
And harbors not one thought without…
Contributor:
Devorà Ascarelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Listen, my friends, pay attention!
Be silent, do not restrain me,
Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful,
His heart and tongue in two directions pull;
If not, why did he leave his native…
Contributor:
Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Ottoman Empire (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…
Contributor:
Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1865