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My name is Benillouche, Alexandre Mordekhai.
How galling the smiles of my classmates! In our alley, and at the Alliance School, I hadn’t known how ridiculous, how revealing, my name could be…
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Albert Memmi
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Paris, France
Date:
1953
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Being rich is no picnic. It’s no good to be wealthy, especially in Mexico. You get what I’m saying? It’s no good!
When people talk to me, they suck up to me, all smiles and flattery: It’s señora Tinif…
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Abraham Weisbaum
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Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1959
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They were neighbors for many, many years. Thirty, forty, maybe half a century . . . ever since Colony D . . . was established back at the beginning of the eighteen-nineties.
Their parents grew up…
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Natalio Budasoff
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1962
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The relationship between the lovers had already lost much of its intimacy when the couple was blessed with a thriving son. This event reawakened the count’s feelings of tenderness for the mother of…
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Sara Hirsch Guggenheim
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Austrian Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
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1863–1864
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Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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1950
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
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Chava Rosenfarb
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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He then returned to his city, filled with bitterness, humiliated, oppressed, and weak. He found his wife Ḥaya—who had been a picture of robust health and womanly valor when he had set out on his…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1900
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Four weeks before the completion of the new twelve-story addition the store advertised for two hundred experienced saleswomen. Rachel Wiletzky, entering the superintendent’s office after a wait of…
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Edna Ferber
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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I think I have fully grasped usque ad ultimas differentias the meaning of the Company, its shares, its principles, its reputation, its splendor, its initiation, its progress, its…
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Joseph Penso de la Vega
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
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Efraim Kaganovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923