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For four years now he had been working the two hundred acres of farm land they had given him when he arrived in Argentina from Russia. The Roschpina colony of Entre Ríos was the most cheerful one in…
Contributor:
Samuel Eichelbaum
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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Avigdor walked beyond the city limits of Tel Aviv into the endless stretch of sand. He had never seen such sand. He walked among the sand dunes, as in a forest, seeing nothing except the glaring sands…
Contributor:
Abraham Vysotsky
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1933
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. . . An empty street. An unfamiliar shack. A tightly shut gate. And hanging over the gate, over the dead street, over us all—a Cossack cap with a raspberry-colored band. A trail of smoke from an…
Contributor:
Mark Egart
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1933–1934
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At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out ever deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was…
Contributor:
Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic (Drohobych, Ukraine)
Date:
1934
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One year later, a Sunday afternoon. The front room. Jacob is giving his son Mordecai [Uncle Morty] a haircut, newspapers spread around the base of the chair. Moe is reading a newspaper, l…
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Clifford Odets
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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One day a neighbor broke the leg of a stray dog with a heavy stone, and when Vasil saw the sharp edge of the bone piercing the skin he cried. The tears streamed from his eyes, his mouth, and his…
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Lamed Shapiro
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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[ . . . ] Reb Azrielke:God’s world is great and holy. The holiest land in the world is the Land of Israel. In the Land of Israel the holiest city is Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the holiest place was the…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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It was an afternoon in the middle of April when the accident occurred. The year was a leap year, rainy and warm, and on that summery spring day in the commune he had already been given the job of…
Contributor:
Yosef Haim Brenner
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1920
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An abecedary is a list of the letters of the alphabet, written in order, for instruction or practice in writing, and perhaps also for other purposes. Four abecedaries were written on this large…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE