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So, like I said before, the only problem of Pnina was, she couldn’t have children. Everything else, a husband, money, work, vacations, she had. Only no children. Not that she and Yochanan didn’t try…
Contributor:
Avner Mandelman
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
2003
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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“Dearest Volodechka!” Mother shouted. “Happy birthday…! Happy new beginning…! Your father and I wish you a brilliant future…! Much success…! You’re a talented young man…! The economy’s improving…! We…
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Gary Shteyngart
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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Which tells how a certain man took up with a prostitute in Hamburg, his first wife hearing of this came from Poland, how he was forced to give her a writ of divorce and this almost cost him his life…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Date:
1675
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I won’t be around forever, Mother said.
One day I’m going to die, so I might
as well nag you a little bit more,
while I have the chance. And when
I’m dead you’ll have to rely on someone else
to tell…
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Hal Sirowitz
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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A month later, when a young man, about eighteen years old, Mulla Ovadia’s nephew, came to his father’s property and saw all that his uncle had done in it, he was told that his uncle had a wife in…
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Yehudah Burla
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913
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Rosa:Oh, is that you, my friend . . . I was beginning to wonder why I haven’t seen you for two days; I was about to accuse you . . . I was inclined to think that you didn’t want to see…
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Maria Lerner
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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The other day I met a Jew from Shklov on Arbat Street, directly opposite the entrance to the Vakhtangov Theater, and he told me about the moon he knew in Shklov, which urged him to Moscow. The Jew was…
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Shmuel Godiner
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1928
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Pinkie:[Jumping up] Johnny, did you ever hear of The Marshall Plan? The Five Year Plan? The Morris Plan? Now listen to the Pincus Plan! Let’s give up the business!Johnny:[With a quiet intensity, as he…
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Sylvia Regan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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I sometimes dream that I’m a prisoner. For days, years. I’m only free at night, for a few hours toward morning. During those hours I can walk around. But I don’t know where to go. All the people I…
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Barbara Honigmann
Places:
Strasbourg, France
Date:
1996