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No sooner had he laid his head on the pillow that he was fast asleep. His insomnia of the night before, his great fatigue on the sailing date, and the ship’s swaying in the waves—all combined to…
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Amnon Shamosh
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Kibbutz Ma‘ayan Barukh, Israel
Date:
1972
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It is said: A thread of grace is spun and drawn out of the deeds of Israel, and the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, in His glory, sits and weaves—strand on strand—a tallit all grace and all mercy…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908
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Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
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Neḥamah Pukhachewsky
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine (Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Moshe Mizrachi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1902
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For the past four years I had not seen the morning sun. The newspaper work generally ended about three o’clock in the morning and who can go to sleep right after work? After work one…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1929
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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no…
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Jacob Steinberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980
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“You be the man. You lead!”
So his mother commanded him, taking his reluctant hands and putting them firmly around her middle. “Go on, lead!” She smiled at him. He could feel her breath on his face…
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David Grossman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1991
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Now we resemble a city under siege, one whose enemies swarm toward it from all directions.
And if, in the meantime, we are forced to confront the tanks armed only with Molotov bottles, then we must…
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Esther Streit-Wurzel
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Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1976
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I really like it when it rains in the morning, before school, because then, there’s this atmosphere of winter. Outside, it’s cloudy and pretty dark, and in the classroom and hallways you suddenly…
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Gadi Taub
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1992