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Jacob was having such a wonderful week! First he had his birthday and got all those wonderful gifts, then he became a Jewish boy, and then—he got to stay up on Friday evening!
Mother…
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Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, Leo Pinkhof
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1918
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“Sonia! . . . Sonia! . . . Where the devil have you gone, child? Sonia!”
A Jewish woman calls her little girl in from the patio of her apartment.
It’s five in the afternoon, and as it’s midwinter…
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Enrique Espinoza
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1924
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Holy grandmothers in Jerusalem,
May your virtue protect me.
The smell of blossoms and blooming orchards
I suckled with my mother’s milk.
Feet soft as hands, fumbling
In the torrid sand,
And tousled…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1930
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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
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Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Alsace, France)
Date:
1849–1853
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[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah…
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Shaul Shoḥet
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1915/16
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I had not tasted anything all day long. I had made no preparations on Sabbath eve, so I had nothing to eat on the Sabbath. At that time I was on my own. My wife and children were abroad, and I had…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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1933
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It is often said that among the Gentiles there are men of noble lineage whose features and outward appearance show that nothing but the purest and most refined aristocratic blood…
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Yehudah Burla
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Saturday is the worst of the week. Whenever I touch anything on this day, straightway there comes a voice: Don’t do that, today it’s a sin.
“Sin?” I ask.
Says Mother: “Sin is that for which the Good…
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Károly Pap
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1937
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Lancaster, August 5th 1793Miss Richea Gratz,PhiladelphiaThe letter of the 1st instant from my dear sister I now seat myself to accknowledge. Its contents I duly note. The subject it treats on is of…
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Simon Gratz, Samuel Hays
Places:
Lancaster, United States of America
Date:
1793