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Contributor:
Maurits Leon
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1865–1870
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Esther Oppenheim
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(New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1730 and 1818
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This book is intended as a description of a “traditional society”—that is, a society that saw itself as based upon a body of knowledge and a set of values handed down to…
Contributor:
Jacob Katz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1958
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One more incident.
A woman shows up at the president’s office and demands the immediate return of her son, who is working in Djelloula, in the Italian sector.
It is impossible to reason…
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Paul Ghez
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(Westerbork transit camp, Netherlands)
Date:
1943
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Shenandoah’s mother proceeded to explain in detail how insurance was a genial medium for a man like Mr. Baumann. The important thing in insurance was to win one’s way into the homes and into the…
Contributor:
Delmore Schwartz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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The first man, Adam, lies in the grass,
And spits at a passing cloud,
Humbly, the cloud says, “Adam,
Please, would you cut that out.”
But Adam sticks out his tongue
And…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that’s no reason why they cain…
Contributor:
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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Benjamin came back with the same suitcase and the same few sets of underwear he had left with for Germany. He brought back everything—his illness included. The only thing he didn’t bring back were his…
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Joseph Buloff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1972
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Hester sat down quietly next to her mother, whose sewing went on and on, a mild substitute for conversation. For a while, Hester watched the long, important-looking shadows that encroached upon the…
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Hortense Calisher
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…
Contributor:
Samuel Pecar
Date:
1954