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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1903
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There are contradictions and ambivalences in our celebrating Thanksgiving. We are recent Americans. It wasn’t the Mayflower that brought our people over here. We know too much about what the coming of…
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Anne Roiphe
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…
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Paul Cowan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
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Tatiana Akhtman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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My mother often sent me shopping to 18th Avenue (not a far distance, but for a kid it was unfamiliar territory), the district of Middle Eastern groceries, whose shopkeepers were…
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Jack Marshall
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El Cerrito, United States of America
Date:
2005
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With zeal and zest I threw myself into the work to help assemble archive materials. I was entrusted to be the custodian, I hid the material. Besides me, no one knew. I confided only in my friend Hersh…
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Israel Lichtenstein
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1942
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One week later, as we returned from work, there, in the middle of the camp, in the Appelplatz, stood a black gallows.
We learned that soup would be distributed only after roll call, which lasted…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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But take heed, blind Pharisees, what you say! For though your hearts be full of malice and cunning yet, being without light, your tongues betray you. Suppose I was a Christian, what then would you say…
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Uriel da Costa
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
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I’d known right away that I’d dressed all wrong for the interview, and I sensed even this early that it was becoming a formality. I’d prepared myself to play it in Jack Carter’s cool way. But the imp…
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Ted Solotaroff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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[…] I made the mistake of stopping in for Sabbath services. Dutifully I tried praying but was distracted by the dance of light reflecting from people’s wedding rings on the walls. When everyone stood…
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Daniel Asa Rose
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2000