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Once this was the heart of Warsaw—this labyrinth of sad narrow streets between tall tenement houses. Now this is a remote place, an ancient tumor on the body of the modern city, where its blood flows…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1929
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“No,” said Golder.
He moved the shade with a brusque gesture, so that the lamp light fell full on the features of Simon Marcus, who sat opposite him, at the other side of the table. For a…
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Irène Némirovsky
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Paris, France
Date:
1929
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Have I made it clear how much I indulge my husband? Seven years of love had been simply one long series of concessions, joyfully made in a whirl of happiness. I adjusted to everything, all the…
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Sarah Lévy
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Paris, France
Date:
1930
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One day Bereh turned up in the yard. An unseasonably warm glow coated the world, glazing the storm windows with an unexpected spring sheen. He walked slowly down the…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1931
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The heder was in the basement. It was a dark, damp room with a low ceiling. There were two windows on the ground level. In the middle of the room, there was a long wooden table covered with books, two…
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Doiv Ber Levin
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Petrograd, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1932
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I came to say good-bye. I was going away to the University of Missouri. My grandfather turned from the window at which he sat, looking across the lots at the parkway. To eyes used to…
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Charles Reznikoff
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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For four years now he had been working the two hundred acres of farm land they had given him when he arrived in Argentina from Russia. The Roschpina colony of Entre Ríos was the most cheerful one in…
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Samuel Eichelbaum
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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Avigdor walked beyond the city limits of Tel Aviv into the endless stretch of sand. He had never seen such sand. He walked among the sand dunes, as in a forest, seeing nothing except the glaring sands…
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Abraham Vysotsky
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1933
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. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…
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Mark Egart
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1933–1934
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At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out ever deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was…
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Bruno Schulz
Places:
Drohobych, Second Polish Republic (Drohobych, Ukraine)
Date:
1934