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It is barely six in the morning and the stars are still out, but Manuel has to get up.
It isn’t a job that wakes him. That obligation used to get him right to his feet, but now? Now just getting…
Contributor:
José Rabinovich
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1937
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From other friends—poets, creators,
who are dear to me always,
I step away today,
Feffer,
and turn to you!
The battles still rage
on our literary planet
but it’s time to consider
the creative…
Contributor:
Aharon Kushnirov
Date:
1930
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The only garden left in our walled-up town was the old cemetery, whose earliest graves dated back to the thirteenth century. It was densely overgrown. Picking one’s way to its remoter corners meant…
Contributor:
Piotr Rawicz
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1961
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And suddenly he lifted his eyes to see,
A stranger approaching the hill with the tree.
He jumped off the branch and hurried below,
Joining the old man who walked on the road.
Contributor:
Yocheved Saks
Places:
Bnei Brak, Israel
Date:
1977
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[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
End of 8th Century BCE
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Thus said the editor [megihah], who bursts forth [megi’aḥ] in prostration from his place, and offers his greeting of peace with a bow and while kneeling. His labor is for all those who are wise of…
Contributor:
Seligman Ulma
Places:
Hanau, Holy Roman Empire
(Hanau, Germany)
Date:
1610
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Luxor, Egypt
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE
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[…]Uncle Herbert was right, part of the time they made them use toothbrushes, for a joke. They sloshed bucketfuls of ammonia and other stuff that burns the skin and stings the eyes over the street and…
Contributor:
Doris Orgel
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1978
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Can you imagine the air filled with smoke?
It was. The city was vanishing before noon
or was it earlier than that? I can’t say because
the light came from nowhere and went nowhere.
This was years…
Contributor:
Philip Levine
Places:
Fresno, United States of America
Date:
1998