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For some reason, Galina’s mother had been turning up in her thoughts more often since the war began. Galina didn’t think about her with defiance, the way she used to before her mother’s death and for…
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Lara Vapnyar
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)
Date:
1648
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Today is the eighth day since the evil tidings came that the crown has fallen from our head (Lam. 5:16). It was my obligation to see that we should immediately have arranged a great memorial service…
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Ezekiel Landau
Places:
Prag, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1780