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So what do storytellers do? The ones I like operate more or less like tribal witchdoctors.
Here is a little story for you. Nine thousand six hundred and six years ago, in a…
Contributor:
Amos Oz
Places:
Huldah, Israel
Date:
1972
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Black ants crawl over nicotine-stained fingertips
dipping a mint leaf into the glass.
The alcohol dismantles Abd al-Wahab’s
“Cleopatra.”
Now all is clear
solo violin
solo flute
solo oud
we’re…
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Ronny Someck
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1973
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We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for…
Contributor:
Emanuele Levi
Places:
Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia (Asti, Italy)
Date:
1822–1823
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There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She…
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Allegra Goodman
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1998
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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
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Gerald Stern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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Among the wrestlers competing in the current tournament in the Panorama [Building] on Karowa Street, fighting for the 1912 Polish Championship, is a Jew called Vildman.He has become quite famous, in…
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Menachem Kipnis
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
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Flat Bush, Saturday, 10 o’c[lock]., August 10th, [17]’81
My dear Abby: [ . . . ]
[ . . . ] By the by, few N.York ladies know how to entertain company in their own houses unless they introduce the card…
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Rebecca Franks
Places:
Flatbush, United States of America
Date:
1781
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Why should I take it to heart
I have new things on my mind,
Imagination that helps me to forget at times.
Why should I take it to heart
I have so much before that to love,
I always have friends…
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Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1970
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We had spent the summer at Enghien, in the pleasant Montmorency valley, where every year spring brings along with its fragrant greenery, the choicest Parisian society. Situated on the shore…
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Eugénie Foa
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1833
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Children, onward. Children, onward!
Through this gate.
Every boy shall pass.
Whoever has a white flag,
Go to the right:
Whoever has a blue flag,
Go to the left.
Children, onward. Children, onward!
On…
Contributor:
Yeḥiel Heilprin
Date:
1912