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“No I say; enough is enough! On their behalf I prayed, for their benefit I cried my eyes out. Enough! I say, no! May I be struck dumb if I will say one more word, not even my name, Gnesye.” She had a…
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Rokhl Brokhes
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Minsk, USSR (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1922
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Savitsky, the commander of the Sixth Division, rose when he saw me, and I was taken aback by the beauty of his gigantic body. He rose—his breeches purple, his crimson cap cocked to the side, his…
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Isaac Babel
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Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1924
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“Sonia! . . . Sonia! . . . Where the devil have you gone, child? Sonia!”
A Jewish woman calls her little girl in from the patio of her apartment.
It’s five in the afternoon, and as it’s midwinter…
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Enrique Espinoza
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1924
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The war went on and would not be stopped. On the contrary. It proved futile to hold it to any schedule or limit. At no prearranged time would the land be quiet, not at harvest time, not near winter…
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Chaim Hazaz
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1924
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
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S. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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When “Papa” Gonta bore down on Tetayev at the head of his Cossack army in the summer of 1768, the little town had a strange look about it: the houses large and small stood desolate, their shutters…
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Asher Barash
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1925
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The Jews are probably the only people in the world to whom it has ever been proposed that their historic destiny is—to be nice. This singular concept has played such an important role in…
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Maurice Samuel
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…
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Henryk Erlich
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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Five years have passed since that mournful 5th of March, which witnessed the so-called election of Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich. It might long have been foreseen and perhaps even averted…
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Stephen S. Wise
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Before the war Bloyne was a rich and elegant Jewish town: wide streets, a large municipal park, several monuments, many tall buildings, large stores. But when the war came through, the town was…
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S. An-ski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920