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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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During the bitterest days of my European exile, I turn to the photo album where I keep, along with more recent memories, a few images from my childhood—images that enlarged and corrected, come back to…
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Reina Roffé
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Madrid, Spain
Date:
1999
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When I told Glikeria the story of Angus, she told me that the story of Angus falling in love with Kerr is quite a story; that is: an all inclusive, conclusive, and exhaustive story about falling in…
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Ruth Almog
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2000
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It was fascinating to see her face again after so long. Although Joe had never forgotten the girl whom he had surprised that morning in Jerry Glovsky’s bedroom, he saw that, in his nocturnal…
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Michael Chabon
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
2000
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When I was born, Robert G. Mehlman was at the peak of his glory. He was more than a major talent. But within five years there wasn’t much of that glory left, and my mother sometimes compared him to a…
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Arnon Grunberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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It was agreed that Grandfather and I would go forth at midnight of 1 July. This would present us with fifteen hours. It was agreed, by everyone except for Grandfather and I, that we should travel to…
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . .
I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…
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Kurkh, Assyria (Üçtepe, Turkey)
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853–824 BCE