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From the balcony, Fuad was heard to groan, “That’s all we need today. Ya rab, that’s all we need.”
Shoshana was frightened. “What’s happened?”
“Come see.”
Her two sons hurried before her. Over their…
Contributor:
Sami Michael
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1977
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During the night I have a vision of bedbugs in congress. A concrescence of male and female. The polluted mass pulsates, masculine organs pullulate, grow into dangerous spikes that, blinded by passion…
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Clive Sinclair
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1982
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David and Nicolás raised a dove for me. They had her for about a month in the count’s house, trying to become fond of her because she was from the messenger race, and they wanted me to use her to send…
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Gerardo Mario Goloboff
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1984
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Along the nocturnal road were trees, nodding heads like people. The light of the speeding bus falls on them, withdraws from them. And the vapour-veiled moon crescent is getting blurred. But why is her…
Contributor:
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984
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Not a word about Ein Harod on the official radio. All the official communiqués were broadcast. Directives to obey. Directives to obey directives. Directives prohibiting assemblies. Directives not to…
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Amos Kenan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984
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In the middle of the summer Meir’s father gave in to his uncle and aunt’s pleas and went away with them to spend a week in the country, and in obedience to his request Meir went over to the apartment…
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Yaakov Shabtai
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
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Meir Shalev
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again.
Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace.
David…
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Grete Weil
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Munich, Germany
Date:
1988
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Emmanuel Hollander worked at, and believed in progress, but progress was not a religious notion for him, as it was for his future wife. He was an engineer and knew that every machine began as a…
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Marcel Möring
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1997
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Once Clara asked me, “How come your family emigrated to Canada, of all places? I thought the Jews went to New York.”
I was born Canadian, I explained, because my grandfather, a ritual slaughterer, was…
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Mordecai Richler
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1997