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[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
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David Daiches
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New York City, United States of America
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Date:
1956
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But the distant lulls were merely the frame of the picture; the feast for Joseph’s eyes was the green Valley of Jezreel itself, the cradle of the Communes. Twenty years ago a desolate marsh cursed…
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Arthur Koestler
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1946
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The refugees sat with their spoons halfway to their mouths, apparently listening with great seriousness, and trying with all their might not to burst into gales of laughter. The long, skinny lady left…
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Esther Singer Kreitman
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:
Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that…
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Elana Dykewomon
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(Oakland, United States of America)
Date:
1997
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
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Berl Katznelson
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Some two years ago Nata had been deported from Warsaw to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Now she was free, but still unable to come to grips with life, so newly regained, though in the first breath…
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Mina Tomkiewicz
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1955
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Isaac Nathan
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1815