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If am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Some people thought he was cracked and for a time he himself had doubted that he was all there. But now, though he still behaved…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1964
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
Contributor:
Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire (Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868
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The Moshava of Pardes-Hannah is the place I come from, but since I left it, my eyes have been turned away from it, as if I couldn’t look at it. Until I went to the army, the Moshava was a whole place…
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Ariel Hirschfeld
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2000
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Now in that same shtetl there lived a youth named Shimen, but he was nicknamed Simkhe (joy, celebration) and Plakhte (coarse cloth) because he was barefoot and almost naked and that was all he wore…
Contributor:
Yankev Morgenshtern
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1870s or 1880s