Showing Results 41 - 50 of 104
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
Contributor:
David Daiches
Places:
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On a forgone and alien diaspora night,
Far, far in the midst of childhood,
A heavy bottomless darkness closed upon me,
Surrounding me in fear and horror.
Somewhere in Yemen in the district of…
Contributor:
Ratson Halevi
Places:
Date:
1964
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I went to see to my sister in Berlin.
She wants me to consider moving in.
Her husband’s passed away now, a schlemiel,
He left her too much money in his will.
Her residence is filled with precious…
Contributor:
Georg Kreisler
Places:
Munich, West Germany (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1963
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
He remembers well how for the first time in his life he tried to cross the big street in Baghdad. With one hand his mother held onto him and with the other she held her long and wide cape, looked…
Contributor:
Shalom Darwish
Places:
Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1948
Categories:
Restricted
Text
All illusions lost, the only thing really left for him to do was to take that step. The gangplank already hauled off, and the last whistle blown, the steamship would weigh anchor. He again looked at…
Contributor:
Samuel Rawet
Places:
Date:
1956
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
He carried his camera and case into the dining room, and as he stood there for a moment, peering at the table through the twilight haze in the room, he breathed deeply of the familiar holiday odors…
Contributor:
Jo Sinclair
Places:
Date:
1946
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Foreign to me are trees in bloom
And grass and air and sky
What storms have banished me
From Eden
What blazing fire from the sun
Your wind won’t dry these tears
Land of exile
Your rain won’t…
Contributor:
Jeanne Benguigui
Places:
Antwerp, Belgium
Date:
1963
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Ai, the troubles of a greenhorn! A scholar in the subject of cloakmaking, as I am today, I had not yet become. And if in those days you had “unioned” me till you were blue in the face, I still would…
Contributor:
Leon Kobrin
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
Before 1910
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
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?”…
Contributor:
Anzia Yezierska
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On the roads of Siberia
Someone may still uncover a button, a lace
Of my torn shoe,
A leather belt, a shard of a clay mug,
A page of the holy book.
On the rivers of Siberia
Someone may still…
Contributor:
H. Leivick
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918