Showing Results 4751 - 4760 of 5408
Restricted
Text
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke?
It was. The city was vanishing before noon
or was it earlier than that? I can’t say because
the light came from nowhere and went nowhere.
This was years…
Contributor:
Philip Levine
Places:
Fresno, United States of America
Date:
1998
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It was like this in the garden:
Ben Azzai looked and died,
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Akiba and I went forth in peace,
but they said I cut down the young plants.
I said that one is two…
Contributor:
Norman Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I have a lovely period photo, sepia coloured, with all the characters in a row, and their gentle trusting faces, photograph faces that nobody ever looks at now. They are the shifbrider, the ship…
Contributor:
Margo Glantz
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1981
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
At the end of King George Boulevard stood a tall building with two black, cavernous entrances. It served as a brothel, first for Arabs and later for Allied troops. When passing in front of this…
Contributor:
Dan Vittorio Segre
Places:
Date:
1985
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It is April 1959, I’m standing at the railing of the Batory’s upper deck, and I feel that my life is ending. I’m looking out at the crowd that has gathered on the shore to see the ship’s departure…
Contributor:
Eva Hoffman
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
My experience with discrimination—especially at the hands of the Paul, Weiss firm over my Sabbath observance—caused me an embarrassing moment during my interview for the Supreme Court clerkship I did…
Contributor:
Alan Dershowitz
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1991
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…
Contributor:
Yitzhak Laor
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1982
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
Contributor:
Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
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”…
Contributor:
Gerald Stern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
Categories:
Public Access
Text
[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
Contributor:
José Kozer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983