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[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good…
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Eileen Pollack
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New York, United States of America
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1991
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Her mother shed a tear or two but wasn’t really
crying. It was the thing to do, so she did it
enjoying every moment. The bride laughed when I
sympathized, and said don’t be silly.
Her brothers had…
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Nissim Ezekiel
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Mumbai, India
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1962
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A Holocaust survivor grapples with the question: should one bring children into the world after experiencing the horrors of the death camps?
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Imre Kertész
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Budapest, Hungary
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1990
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In honor of Jacob’s daughter who was raped by Ben ḤamorWhy should you weep my sister Ruḥamah,Why are you downcast, why does your spirit quiver,And why have your rosy cheeks wilted?Because raiders…
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Judah Leib Gordon
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1881
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Now the days of the pogroms came, and the hands of the masses were raised against the Jews to strike and destroy them. Socialism disgusted me. Not from the idea, which I still hold even more strongly…
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Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1910
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And then I heard the singing. Chanting, prayer, live voices, not from the transistor. It wasn’t yet light, just the first flutterings of dawn. Shivering with cold, wrapped in our blankets, wet with…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1977
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Leiba recognized that Fraydel was in danger of disappearing down the well of her own thoughts.
Fraydel was a secret keeping herself from the world. When she spoke, it was yet another way of keeping…
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Rebecca Goldstein
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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My experience with discrimination—especially at the hands of the Paul, Weiss firm over my Sabbath observance—caused me an embarrassing moment during my interview for the Supreme Court clerkship I did…
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Alan Dershowitz
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1991