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The figurative underworld of a great city has no ventilation, housing or lighting problems. Rooks and crooks who live in the putrid air of crime are not denied the light of day, even though they…
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Fannie Hurst
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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The street lamps of the Old Town began to flare out in preparation for the night. And soon the yellow gas-lights shone in the shop windows too, and outside the little…
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Sholem Asch
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1916
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In an air-shaft so narrow that you could touch the next wall with your bare hands, Hanneh Breineh leaned out and knocked on her neighbor’s window.
“Can you loan me your wash-boiler for the clothes?”…
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Anzia Yezierska
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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A book in my hand. The steam
Of the radiator on my brows.
There’s a light rain outside.
I’m sleepy. I almost drift off.
I’m sleepy. People speaking,
As through a canvas, monotone.
A young man…
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Yosef Rolnik
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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“And you, O mortal, take a brick and put it in front of you, and incise on it a city, Jerusalem. Set up a siege against it, and build towers against it, and cast a mound against it; pitch…
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Biblical Period
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Then Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests set to and rebuilt the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and set up its doors, consecrating it as far as the Hundred’s Tower, as far as the Tower of…
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Persian Period, 6th–4th Century BCE
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On his way home Gurdweill tried without success to find the reason for Lotte’s strange behaviour. He went over everything he had said in her house in his mind: there was nothing that could have…
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David Vogel
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1929
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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
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Hirsh Bloshtein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ca. 1930
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This episode occurred on Deribasov Street, about two years after the beginning of our story.
At that time our editorial office was located at the upper end of the street, in the…
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Vladimir Jabotinsky
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1935
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Most of the immigrants came from Italy and Eastern Europe. They were taken in launches to Ellis Island. There, in a curiously ornate human warehouse of red brick and gray stone, they were tagged…
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E. L. Doctorow
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New Rochelle, United States of America
Date:
1975