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The educated Englishman can live his entire life without ever once giving a moment’s thought to his people’s historical destiny or purpose. He knows instinctively that his people are alive and intact…
Contributor:
Mikhail Gershenzon
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1922
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This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…
Contributor:
Judah Scheindling of Shkudy
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Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)
Date:
1864–1867
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There is nothing more terrible than dreams come true. […]
The first streets of New York. Primitive prefab apartment houses. Fire escapes down the front. The capital of the world is immediately…
Contributor:
Petr Vail, Aleksandr Genis
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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“The comparative image of Natal’ia Rostova and Tat’iana Larina”—indeed, which one of them would have worked better on the Line?
The mid-1990s, the desert, a profitable little newly fledged factory on…
Contributor:
Tatiana Akhtman
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1997
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
Contributor:
David Khait
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1928