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Ronnie:Everything has broken up around you and you can’t see it.
Sarah [shouting]:What, what, what, you mad boy? Explain what you mean.
Ronnie:What has happened to all the comrades, Sarah? I even…
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Arnold Wesker
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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Duddy drove to Montreal the next morning, picked up his stuff, and returned to Ste. Agathe by bus the same evening. Yvette met him at the station. “Hey,” he said, “did you see the paper? They raided…
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Mordecai Richler
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Toronto, Canada
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1959
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And now for my style. I must frankly confess that I have invented a new one. I am conscious of the hazard of such innovation, but I have not adopted my system without long meditation, and a…
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Benjamin Disraeli
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1833
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The same. Three days later.
Maxis moving rocks.horstis putting the rock pile into neat order.
Horst:The air is fresh today. Clean.
[maxhandshorsta needle and a thread as he passes the…
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Martin Sherman
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1979
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Lights up on Judith.The rest of the company have their backs to the audience. They are dressed in 1940s costumes. She is dressed in today’s casual clothes.Judith:I was in Germany and they went on…
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Julia Pascal
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London, United Kingdom
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1990
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When I was born, Robert G. Mehlman was at the peak of his glory. He was more than a major talent. But within five years there wasn’t much of that glory left, and my mother sometimes compared him to a…
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Arnon Grunberg
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London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
2000
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I have always backed off from the word.
In the Thirties Europe meant French. But was it only then? Not in earlier centuries? A bloody lesson learned that Europe was Balmazújváros as well as Notre…
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Ottó Orbán
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Manchester, United Kingdom
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1978
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There are two things I ought to make clear. First, almost as soon as she starts telling me about her career (as we wade through the sleet from the bus stop to the market), my grandmother declares that…
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Masha Gessen
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London, United Kingdom
(Moscow, Russia)
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1998
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Mar Abramowitz did not attend services in our temple. With a dozen or so other Ashkenazi refugees from Eastern Europe he worshiped in a tiny downtown loft that was said, by those who had never been…
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Victor Perera
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London, United Kingdom
(Santa Cruz, United States of America)
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1985
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In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!
His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.
The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat
To him…
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Isaac Rosenberg
Places:
Cape Town, South Africa
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1916