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After the death of Saul—David had already returned from defeating the Amalekites—David stayed two days in Ziklag. On the third day, a man came…
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19 August 1943
Today, dear Anka, is the anniversary of your Golgotha, tomorrow the anniversary of your death. A year has passed since I last saw you. You see, Anka, I do not believe in God and never…
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Calel Perechodnik
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1943
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Three weeks before Sammy’s thirteenth birthday Papa came in too upset to eat.
“Tonight when I come out of schule the rabbi wants to talk to me. ‘Max, my heart is like lead to tell you this,’ he says,…
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Budd Schulberg
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1941
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Arnon Street is not the largest street in Tel Aviv. On the contrary, it is a small street, nearly an alleyway. There is very little traffic. A double-decker bus does not go through it, or any other…
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Leah Goldberg
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1943
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Her Yoysef was hanging on the shaft of the well. His beard lay humbly on his breast. His fallen shoulders and feebly dangling hands expressed the most profound hopelessness. What can I do? A stone has…
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Rivke Rubin
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1943
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here in this carload
i am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him that i
Translated by Stephen Mitchell.
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Dan Pagis
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1970
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Hush little baby. Forty-six years now
the night has rocked itself in my empty cradle
Now a gray head is rocked to sleep with the same tune:
Standing at the cradle’s head
No angel with two white wings…
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Chaim Grade
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1936
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Ronnie:Everything has broken up around you and you can’t see it.
Sarah [shouting]:What, what, what, you mad boy? Explain what you mean.
Ronnie:What has happened to all the comrades, Sarah? I even…
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Arnold Wesker
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London, United Kingdom
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1956
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I request my husband to dispose as follows:
I would wish to be able to give my family in Berlin the capital of 10,000 gulden held for me by my husband . . . my pearls, as my favorite pieces of…
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Fanny von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
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1793
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When the Seven Years War broke out in 1756, I was the father of four children, and the cost of living was high. I had tried to make my way in the world like an honourable man. When the enemy Prussians…
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Aaron Isaac
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Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden
(Stockholm, Sweden)
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1801–1802