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At the exit, behind the plywood counter, sits the foreman holding a bottle of Coke to his mouth. “Hey you! Come over here,” he calls to Barukh.
Barukh’s heart skips a beat. Someone else once called to…
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Chava Rosenfarb
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1990
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This is the moment Francisco has been waiting for. Day after day and week after week he has imagined the court’s questions, turned them over in his mind, and minutely rehearsed his answers. Now fear…
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Marcos Aguinis
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Córdoba, Argentina
Date:
1991
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A dull, rhythmic tremor thudded inside the room over and over again, as if someone was pounding on the wall behind her head with his fists. She sat up in bed and tried to get up. After several vain…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
Places:
Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1991
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[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good…
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Eileen Pollack
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
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What I like about Catholic Heaven (I’d say Christian Heaven, but I’m afraid of making a mistake; I know very little about Evangelicals and Seventh Day Adventists) is that it has well-defined limits…
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Alicia Steimberg
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1992
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In her death agony—which lasted no more than an instant or two—Nazira Mualdeb reviewed the months preceding her granddaughter Alcira’s wedding and a torrent of ghostly images spontaneously abandoned…
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Teresa Porzecanski
Places:
Montevideo, Uruguay
Date:
1994
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Nazie’s whispers, farhiz, farhiz, before falling asleep had availed nothing—the laughing demons sneaked into Flora’s belly, pinched the baby’s bottom and pulled his ears. The sharp edge of the knife…
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Dorit Rabinyan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
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Robin Hemley
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1996
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He pushed the button marked “Down.” He pushed again. The machine ignored the command. Slowly he pivoted his head back, staring up at the stainless-steel eyebrow just over the door. No movement of…
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Thane Rosenbaum
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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The rabbi Nefret Yehudá is reading the Aramaic nonstop.
I have arrived at his temple, next to the devastation, as if to a mountain of salvation.
Only here have I been able to sleep. Nefret has been…
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Marcelo Birmajer
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1997