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Scene: The living room of the Herming family house. The walls of the home contain valuable paintings by many of the greatest nineteenth-century Danish national romantic painters.State…
Contributor:
Henri Nathansen
Places:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Date:
1912
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Bern, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Lucerne, Switzerland (Switzerland)
Date:
1909
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One Sabbath eve, as darkness fell, Noah lay hidden among the thorns and thistles growing under the fences outside the quarter and waited. He knew that Marinka would be returning this way from her…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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He strolled along the bank of the Vistula, thinking, “Today she will come.”
And so thinking, he saw it all in the most vivid colors: He is sitting on the bed in his room, in the darkness, waiting…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1903
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Michael began to visit that house.
At first he did so only occasionally, but later he began to come every day, in the afternoon or early evening. At first, he intended to arrive just when…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Places:
Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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In truth Ezra is still very young, but sometimes these marriages are the ones that turn out best. I used to think it was a crime to do this to these children, but I see so many marriages for love…
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Marcos Ricardo Barnatán
Places:
Madrid, Spain
Date:
1971