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In late October 1990, I traveled to Dharamsala, a remote hill town in northern India. I came to write about a religious dialogue between a group of Jewish delegates and the XIV Dalai Lama…
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Rodger Kamenetz
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New Orleans, United States of America
Date:
1994
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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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Leaving the museum, our small party walked the fifteen minutes out of the center of town it takes to get to the business end of Theresienstadt, the so-called “Small Fortress.” First constructed in the…
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Martin Jay
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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You won’t find the restaurant in the guidebooks, which is a pity. The owner—he was tall and wearing a sport jacket—greeted us at the door. Our table was waiting in the corner.
“And the food is quite…
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James Salter
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2005
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The River Jordan runs through the valley and empties into Great Salt Lake. The city is thirty miles from the Lake, and the valley is entirely surrounded with high mountains topped with snow, winter…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Salt Lake City, United States of America
Date:
1856
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“Green fields, fair forests, singing streams, pine-clad mountains, verdant vista—from the monotony of the city to the monotony of nature. I wanted a complete change, and so I went to the East Side of…
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Bernard G. Richards
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1904
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t…
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Alan M. Tigay
Places:
Northvale, United States of America
Date:
1993