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As a new arrival I wasn’t any good at shopkeeping, and not much of an expert with a horse and cart either. So I drifted round the streets, a sort of washout. I can never forget one day wandering about…
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Chaim Sacks
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1971
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The pages of the book you are now holding in your hand have been soaked in blood and tears. Every word you are reading is a Jewish sigh; every letter is a groan, an akh, a sound of moaning from its…
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Mordechai Alpersohn
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1911
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It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on the shore to see the ship’s departure…
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Eva Hoffman
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New York, United States of America
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1989
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Egyptian Jewish American author André Aciman describes celebrating his last Seder in Egypt with his bags packed to leave his homeland for good.
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André Aciman
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New York, United States of America
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1994
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I have a lovely period photo, sepia coloured, with all the characters in a row, and their gentle trusting faces, photograph faces that nobody ever looks at now. They are the shifbrider, the ship…
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Margo Glantz
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1981
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A gigantic queue in front of the American Embassy building. Today the 36,124th person has already been entered on the waiting list. The majority are Muscovites, but many have come from other cities…
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Arthur Hertzberg
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Berkeley, United States of America
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1988
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My grandfather, like so many others, came to Canada by steerage from Poland in 1900 and settled down not far from Main Street in what was to become a ghetto. Here, as in the real America, the…
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Mordecai Richler
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1961
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[ . . . ] Jewish immigration to South America has now been going on for fully twenty-five years, primarily to Argentina. This immigration began with such energy and…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1914