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I read the serial article included in your esteemed periodical . . . signed by Dr. Amin Effendi al-Khuri; on finishing it, I realized that it had been written in response to an earlier article on the…
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Esther Azhari Moyal
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Ottoman Empire (Syria, Syria)
Date:
1894
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They became steady friends and lovers. Better friends than lovers. She adored kissing and touching him; she adored his physical nearness. Her ultimate inhibitions were never quite broken…
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Ludwig Lewisohn
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1928
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy…
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Malka Lee
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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Our house was gloomy—one reason why, since childhood, I have preferred the street to the home.
One cause of this gloom was the Torah…
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Israel Joshua Singer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1944
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The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate
Women if you want to realize yourselves—you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval—all your pet illusions must be…
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Mina Loy
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1914
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This book tells a true story. In it, what was probably the strangest youth who ever lived, shall speak with its own voice. This life needs to be believed, as strange as it may seem. But strangeness…
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Karl M. Baer
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1907
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Question: Is a proper get [divorce certificate] necessary in the following circumstance: a certain man married a young Jewish woman, and was with her in the manner of men and women, but after some…
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Joseph Pallache
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir Province, Turkey)
Date:
1896
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At home they called her “dummy” and other names like that because she was always so quiet and still, never stirring when she was called. When she was nine years old, she went to school and began…
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Celia Dropkin
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
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Sasson Somekh
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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Bigdickus:Where’s he going? [shouting at an aide who has just exited] Where do you think you’re going?!
Prostitutus:He thinks he’s going to baby-sit.
Bigdickus:Babysitting? I sent him to kill her and…
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Anat Gov
Places:
Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Date:
2001