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Bruce Davidson took a series of photographs documenting the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This one, with its dramatic, almost abstract composition, was taken in 1963, the year before…
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Bruce Davidson
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Staten Island, United States of America
Date:
1963
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This Hebrew-language poster urges Jews in Palestine to lend a hand to the rescue of Jewish refugees. During World War II, Jewish immigration to Palestine was banned by British Mandate authorities. A…
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Gabriel Shamir, Maxim Shamir
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1943
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[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t…
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Abraham J. Zhitnik
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1925
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His strong, coal-black hands crumpling and twisting his faded old hat, the thirty-year-old Adoons said in a quiet but firm voice to his employer, Mr. Waldman, the produce dealer,
“Baas, I’m finishing…
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Morris Hoffman
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Little Karoo, Union of South Africa
(Little Karoo, South Africa)
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ca. 1920
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In the year 1885—when I was nine years old—I started working. My first job was in a little candy factory, where a few girls worked. I used to work a lot: 14–15 hours per day. My pay was 25 kopecks per…
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Khanke Kopeliovitch
Date:
1929
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Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many colours, and at dawn lead me to [my] toil.
My land is wrapped in light as in a prayer shawl. The houses stand forth like frontlets; and the roads…
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Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine
(Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Yesterday, I dumped on my son the following story:
That my father was a cyclops and, of course, had one eye,
That my fifteen brothers wanted to devour me,
So, I barely got myself out of their…
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Jacob Glatstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
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You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust…
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Primo Levi
Places:
Turin, Italy
Date:
1946
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May my lord, the governor/commander, listen to the word of his servant! As for your servant, your servant was harvesting in Hatsar-asam. And your servant harvested and finished/measured and stored it…
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Meṣad Hashavyahu, Land of Israel
(Yavneh, Israel)
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Late 7th Century BCE
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In Brownsville tenements the kitchen is always the largest room and the center of the household. As a child I felt that we lived in a kitchen to which four other rooms were annexed. My mother, a “home…
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Alfred Kazin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1951