Showing Results 1 - 10 of 19
Restricted
Text
Ronnie:Everything has broken up around you and you can’t see it.Sarah [shouting]:What, what, what, you mad boy? Explain what you mean.Ronnie:What has happened to all the comrades, Sarah? I even blush…
Contributor:
Arnold Wesker
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
Contributor:
Armand Lunel
Places:
Monaco City, Monaco (Monaco-Ville, Monaco)
Date:
1926
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In haste
Quickly came the Americans.
This Bread
These emaciated faces
Of our ancestors in panic
From Hitler
All who are hungry may they walk and fear
All who are in need flee in trembling.
This…
Contributor:
Nissim ben Shimon
Places:
Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)
Date:
1943
Categories:
Restricted
Text
A printing error? Are your eyes getting weaker? No! You have read entirely correctly—although you may find this headline irresponsible, although . . . you find no words. Is it not precisely mistrust…
Contributor:
Ilse Aichinger
Places:
Vienna, Allied-occupied Austria (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1946
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I am not aware that the infancy of Vivian Grey was distinguished by any extraordinary incident. The solicitude of the most affectionate of mothers, and the…
Contributor:
Benjamin Disraeli
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1826
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Yitzhak Klein gave such an angry kick to the garbage can that it flew straight into the middle of the sidewalk, scattering its stinking contents in all directions. Klein nearly exploded in his boiling…
Contributor:
Ephraim Kishon
Places:
Date:
1954
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
On a turquoise sea sails a ship. A sharp-eyed gull flies around the mast, swooping down from time to time to see what is happening on the ship, in all its decks. The boat has three decks and a bridge…
Contributor:
Lova Eliav
Places:
Date:
1973
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
Contributor:
Theodor Herzl
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Date:
1902
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1928
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the swirling ballroom, chandeliers poured a corrosive milk over diamond-laced shoulders, and perfumes spun coils of desire between men and languid women swept round by the orchestra. Solal…
Contributor:
Albert Cohen
Places:
Geneva, Switzerland (Genève, Switzerland)
Date:
1930