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I always thought
I had been here before.
Each year of my patched-up life
I mended the fabrics
of my decrepit, tattered world.
In memory I recognized faces and smiles,
even my father and mother…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate:
“Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever?
Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street
In the old days confectioners had a shop there…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
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Few children know the stories of their parents. During my childhood, I knew only that mine were an impossible match—which did not prevent my mother from spending day and night at my father’s bedside…
Contributor:
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1996
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After I published my son’s literary estate in a book, I still had a few scraps of writing and documents of various kinds that I didn’t know how to put together with everything that seemed clear and…
Contributor:
Moshe Shamir
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1953