Showing Results 1 - 10 of 77
Public Access
Text
We have come together these days, during the awakening of our Hebrew literary sphere, to establish a special newspaper for Jewish youngsters and children.Do we really need to talk at length about how…
Contributor:
Unknown
Date:
1917
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Lasik’s downfall did not come because of his name. It was only because of that sigh. Perhaps it was not even the sigh, but rather the economic situation, or the hot weather, or perhaps even certain…
Contributor:
Ilya Ehrenburg
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1928
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At the time Iván Mihalkó called on me after my adventure in the forest to say that his father wanted to see me, I was not yet acquainted with Peméte, and had never heard the name of the…
Contributor:
Béla Illés
Date:
1933
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Vavilova’s face was dark and weather-beaten, and it was odd to see it blush.
“Why are you laughing?” she said finally. “It’s all so stupid.”
Kozyrev took the paper from the table, looked at it, and…
Contributor:
Vasily Grossman
Date:
1934
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Young Man:
Tell us, Bar Kochba, the words to use
When we return to our homes
And tell of meeting you.
Bar Kochba:
For taking of the people’s land,
For stealing of the people’s wealth,…
Contributor:
Shmuel Halkin
Date:
1939
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
for V. Kaverin [Veniamin Kaverin, born Zilber, Soviet writer]
Contributor:
Lev Lunts
Date:
1922
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Year after year, that cruel monster in the heart
growing, sense of guardedness expanding.
Year after year—generations’ blessing
gouged like a needle into the body.
I have wrenched it with irons…
Contributor:
Shmuel Halkin
Date:
1927
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Blessed art Thou, Lord, our God,
King of the Universe,
Who has kept us and protected us,
and supported us until this day
it would be better we had never seen.
You deprived us of nothing,
neither…
Contributor:
Boris Khersonsky
Places:
Odesa, Ukraine
Date:
1996
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The small town resounded with whistling and shouting. The smell of stewing, the smell of frying, the smell of boiling.
Mr. Dykhes had sold all his defective soap to the army.
Mus…
Contributor:
Boris Yampolski
Date:
1940
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…
Contributor:
Eli Shechtman
Date:
1965