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The anthologist, like the historian and the novelist, is an autobiographer is disguise. He is driven into the jungles and watering places of literature by instinct as well as by design. The ultimate…
Contributor:
Leo W. Schwarz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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About two weeks before the birth was due, Grandfather Zisskind appeared in Raya and Yehuda’s home for the second time. His face was yellow, angry, and the light had faded from his eyes. He greeted…
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Aharon Megged
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1950
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Witness 4:When we had crossed the tracksand were waitingat the entrance to the campI hearda prisoner say to a womanThe Red Cross van is only usedto carry gas to the crematoriaYour…
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Peter Weiss
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1965
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—I quite agree, sir. It was done a bit cavalierly and without a proper security check, because he had become known to everyone throughout the autumn months of the advance on Jerusalem. Which is why it…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1990
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Before her death, Naomi had dragged Bill Landsmann to enough Holocaust movies that he knew exactly what would happen in them. His son and daughter-in-law knew better than to…
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Dara Horn
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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So I’m glad I got the napkin back. Because she made it for me when we had all the time. Back in the old country when the two of us loved each other better than anybody else in the whole world. I had…
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Marilyn Sachs
Places:
San Francisco, United States of America
Date:
1982
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“That is my daughter’s dress you are wearing, Chaya Abramowicz. My Chaya. I brought it as a present for her in Lublin.”
“Chaya,” Hannah said.
“The same name, too. God is good. Your name means life.”…
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Jane Yolen
Places:
Massachusetts, United States of America
Date:
1988