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On a turquoise sea sails a ship. A sharp-eyed gull flies around the mast, swooping down from time to time to see what is happening on the ship, in all its decks. The boat has three decks and a bridge…
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Lova Eliav
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1973
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petah Tikva, Israel
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1980
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“You be the man. You lead!”
So his mother commanded him, taking his reluctant hands and putting them firmly around her middle. “Go on, lead!” She smiled at him. He could feel her breath on his face…
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David Grossman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1991
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It was most curious, Hemdat’s having agreed to give Yael Hayyut literature lessons. Yet since it struck him as being but one more insoluble psychological riddle, he took the moralist’s advice and…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1911
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After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
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Yitsḥak Dov Berkowitz
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Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
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1903
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Those matters discussed in an earlier issue dedicated to the practice of indolka inspired the distinguished writer to write this fine article.
Everything that I am relating here is neither eloquent…
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Saliman Menahem Mani
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Hebron, Ottoman Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
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1885
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I really like it when it rains in the morning, before school, because then, there’s this atmosphere of winter. Outside, it’s cloudy and pretty dark, and in the classroom and hallways you suddenly…
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Gadi Taub
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1992
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Now we resemble a city under siege, one whose enemies swarm toward it from all directions.
And if, in the meantime, we are forced to confront the tanks armed only with Molotov bottles, then we must…
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Esther Streit-Wurzel
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Petah Tikva, Israel
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1976
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One day, during World War Two, a military chaplain arrived at our army camp in the Australian outback, to celebrate the Feast of Hanukkah with us and tell us about the wars of the Maccabees. Apart…
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Yossl Birstein
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1986
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Grandfather Anshel wasn’t at all surprised when Momik shared his secret and asked him to help. Momik of course knew Grandfather didn’t understand any of this, but he wanted to be completely fair so he…
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David Grossman
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1986