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Friends of my age,
My happy generation,
We strode, pained-pleased,
Through the wreckage of whole worlds.
Before the living and the dead
fell on our portion
Inherited old skins
of ourselves—and…
Contributor:
Aharon Kushnirov
Date:
1931
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The Woman:I married him and he never gave me any trouble. His mother, she lives with us here. This house is his mother’s house. When we are there, together, in the other room, she lights candles here…
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Yehoshua Sobol
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
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Dan Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
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You wrote on the back page
of my last essay (“Political
Education in The Republic”)
“Good ideas, but style
too literary. Use of images
evades the…
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Peter Sacks
Places:
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1978
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Yitzhak Klein gave such an angry kick to the garbage can that it flew straight into the middle of the sidewalk, scattering its stinking contents in all directions. Klein nearly exploded in his boiling…
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Ephraim Kishon
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1954
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On a turquoise sea sails a ship. A sharp-eyed gull flies around the mast, swooping down from time to time to see what is happening on the ship, in all its decks. The boat has three decks and a bridge…
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Lova Eliav
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1973
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Mordecai:A Judgment Day on you and all the Hamans, today and forevermore—
Haman:Amen! Mordecai, I think you and I will yet be good friends—yes, Motya? [Maudlin.] Come closer, Motya, and I’ll tell you…
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Chaim Sloves
Places:
Paris, Military Administration in France (Paris, France)
Date:
1940
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, German Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874
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Saul [upon returning from smiting the Amalekites]. Jonathan and his other sons.
Saul:
My fury still burns within my heart like a flame of fire!
Even after I have smitten him, I have found no…
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Joseph Ha-Efrati
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1826
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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
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Peretz Markish
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1928