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There are two things I ought to make clear. First, almost as soon as she starts telling me about her career (as we wade through the sleet from the bus stop to the market), my grandmother declares that…
Contributor:
Masha Gessen
Places:
Moscow, Russia
Date:
1998
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
Contributor:
Pauline Wengeroff
Places:
Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1913
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Bread
Very early in the morning we went to pick up fresh bread at Doña Blanquita’s. However, before arriving at her house that resembled the generosity of her hands and clay ovens, we had to cross a…
Contributor:
Marjorie Agosín
Places:
Wellesley, United States of America
Date:
1995