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Much has already been written about the Jewish colonies in the Crimea. Unfortunately, most of the information is buried under a mountain of statistics, historical data, and political…
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Leon Dennen
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural…
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Saul Borovoi
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1928
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
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Efraim Kaganovsky
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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I am a circus lady
And dance among the daggers
Set in the arena
With their points erect.
My swaying, lissome body
Avoids a death-by-falling,
Touching, barely touching the dagger blades.
Holding…
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Celia Dropkin
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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We eat to live. The world is one vast dining room, in which each living thing both consumes and is consumed, in infinite cycles. Everything alive is a potential foodstuff. Big…
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Aviad Kleinberg
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2005
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Larry Fink
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…
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Jacob Katz
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1958
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That night, I was a clockwork doll
and I whirled around, this way and that,
and I fell on my face and shattered to bits
and they tried to fix me with all their skill.
Then I was a proper doll once…
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
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1959
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
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São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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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…
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Sylvia Regan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1953