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Three weeks before Sammy’s thirteenth birthday Papa came in too upset to eat.
“Tonight when I come out of schule the rabbi wants to talk to me. ‘Max, my heart is like lead to tell you this,’ he says,…
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Budd Schulberg
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1941
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Night ThoughtsThat night, I had the weirdest thoughts. I don’t know why, but suddenly I thought to myself how great it is for a boy to have a bed as comfortable as my own. He can lie in bed and get a…
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Galila Ron-Feder
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…
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Moacyr Scliar
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date:
1980
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Bukhara, Russian Empire
(Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
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Early 20th Century
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Lauren Greenfield
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1993
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A male child becomes obligated to observe the commandments at the age of thirteen years and one day. Therefore, on the first day of his fourteenth year, a father grasps his son in his hand and says,…
Contributor:
Ben Ish Ḥai
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
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ca. 1894–1898
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
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David Tevele
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Leipzig, Holy Roman Emprie
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1883