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Everyone appreciated the importance of the work that was being done. They understood how important it was for future generations that a record remain of the tragedy of Polish Jewry. Some realized that…
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Emanuel Ringelblum
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
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1943
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40. When the tradition concerning the opposition of the sea and its confederates to the will of the Creator of the…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1943
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Plans for the anthology of fiction and poetry now presented to the Hebrew reader arose in our minds several years ago, but particularly the tenth anniversary of the State of Israel was found to be…
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Shlomo Tanai, Moshe Shamir
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1958
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The inception of literature is certainly not merely a matter of ideas and ideology. Not only are the contents connected to the forms and dependent on them, but the development of the forms has its own…
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Gershon Shaked
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1971
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The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even…
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Binyamin Tenenbaum
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947
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Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes…
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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Every article you’ve done for us, Phil,” Minify had said, “has a kind of human stuff in it. The right answers get in it somehow.”
Sure. But he hadn’t asked for them and pried for them. When he’d…
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Laura Z. Hobson
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New York, United States of America
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1947
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A good many years ago, in 1929, I chanced to read a book which disturbed me in a way I can still remember. The book was called Red Cavalry; it was a collection of stories about Soviet regiments of…
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Lionel Trilling
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1873
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Those who write out evil writs
And compose iniquitous documents,
To subvert the cause of the poor,
To rob of their rights the needy of My people;
That widows may be their spoil,
And fatherless…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period