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The New York Yiddish Theater opened its London season that autumn with what the drama critic of our building, a watchmaker named Shmulik, described as a daring translation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing…
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Emanuel Litvinoff
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1972
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God has pity on kindergarten children,
He pities school children—less.
But adults he pities not at all.
He abandons them,
And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours
In the scorching sand
To reach…
Contributor:
Yehuda Amichai
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1955
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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Sid Grossman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Georg Ehrlich
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1950–1951
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A moment of agonized suspense and Alvar Rodriguez stood at the window, the bar he had removed in his hand. He let down the string, to which Hassan’s now trembling hands secured the ladder and drew it…
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Grace Aguilar
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1844
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A medieval rabbi barely escapes from a blood libel accusation at his own Seder table in this prescient nineteenth-century story by the famous German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
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Heinrich Heine
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1824
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For my daughter Nedjé
and for her husband Armand Bengui.
Where word and spirit make feeling divine
I see creation and I see poetry . . .
But I know I risk the sin of heresy
If I say the words and…
Contributor:
Sadia Lévy
Places:
Monte Carlo, France
Date:
1957
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Tobey’s Voice:I find as I grow older that I keep going back to my friendship with Willie—when we were young and happy and living in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the early years of the century…
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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The Cabalist:Sexton, light the candles. [The Sextonlights each man’s candle. The Cabalistadvances slowly to The Girl, who stands slackly, her body making small occasional jerking movements, apparently…
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Paddy Chayefsky
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1959