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In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
Contributor:
Nissim ben Shimon
Places:
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943
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For the past four years I had not seen the morning sun. The newspaper work generally ended about three o’clock in the morning and who can go to sleep right after work? After work one…
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Avigdor Hameiri
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1929
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Back in Vienna again, on my way home from a visit to the outer districts of the city, I was unexpectedly caught in a heavy shower of rain that sent people running from its wet whiplash to take refuge…
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Stefan Zweig
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1929
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Shepherds and their flocks were scattered on the rocky hillsides, among the woods of low terebinth and the stretches of wild rose, and even along the swirling contours of valleys foaming with light…
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S. Yizhar
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1948
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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
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Yisroel Rabon
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1928
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The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be quiet, not at harvest time, not near winter…
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Chaim Hazaz
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1924
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When “Papa” Gonta bore down on Tetayev at the head of his Cossack army in the summer of 1768, the little town had a strange look about it: the houses large and small stood desolate, their shutters…
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Asher Barash
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1925