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Gadhi, A PariaMaja, his WifeBenassar, Indian Attendant
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Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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De Vriendt shut the door, but stayed with his forehead pressed against it; the strength had gone out of him. This Englishman knew. He knew the nature of his relation to…
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Arnold Zweig
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation (Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854
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Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.[She feels her way forward.][She shudders.]The walls are sweating.Tell me BluebeardWhy this moisture on my fingers?Walls and rafters, all are weeping.[She covers…
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Béla Balázs
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
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Martha Jadassohn had come with her parents from a small West Poznanian town, named either Bobst or Meseritz, to Berlin where her father’s only sister, a widow, was living alone…
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Gertrud Kolmar
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1931
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The Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were tormented; they experienced terrible things. But from time to time they also experienced fine and wonderful things. They suffered. But they also loved. Except that…
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date:
1999
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No, Anton Wanzl was not good. He lacked love, he lacked heart. He did only what he thought was clever and sensible. He gave no love and asked for none. He never needed any affection, any tenderness…
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Joseph Roth
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1916