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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1928
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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
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Hirsh Bloshtein
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
ca. 1930
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The cheeks collapsed and the eyes half-shut,
My mother listens as her knees sigh:
The whole morning under the winter sky
She ran about to every market.
So let us now at the gate of the wall
Sleep…
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Chaim Grade
Places:
Tashkent, USSR (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Ashgabat, USSR (Ashgabat, Turkmenistan)
Stalinabad, USSR (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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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…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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I have a friend, a teacher, with shaggy hair black as pitch.
He has a child (his wife is still a child too)
and when he comes home, difficult and gloomy,
she runs to meet him, like a quivering wave:…
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Chaim Grade
Places:
Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1937
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And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground;
Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round,
Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business,
Hawking papers…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Being rich is no picnic. It’s no good to be wealthy, especially in Mexico. You get what I’m saying? It’s no good!
When people talk to me, they suck up to me, all smiles and flattery: It’s señora Tinif…
Contributor:
Abraham Weisbaum
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1959
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Presess Rumkowski plunged into the sea of activities and duties like a brave captain who knows his destination, sure that no blizzard, no stormy chaos will cause the ship entrusted into his hands by…
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Chava Rosenfarb
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1972
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Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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1950
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The entire city is talking about the tumult, the uproar in the Jewish Quarter that began after the price of meat started to rise.
The prices for meat not only went up in the Jewish Quarter. The Trusts…
Contributor:
The Forward
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902