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The filthy train lurched along the tracks, jolting my spine through the slats of the wooden seat.
I was thoughtful, my happiness mixed with vague regrets. Happiness? No, a deserter’s sense of hard-won…
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José Chudnovsky
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1964
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But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years…
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Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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[ . . . V]iewed from the broad historic perspective, it is not at all surprising that American Jewry has not yet produced those great cultural achievements for which we are all…
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Salo W. Baron
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1962
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In 1943, the nights were black. The country was at war with Germany and a blackout was instituted, perforated from time to time by fifth-columnists lighting cigarettes to reveal Bom Fim’s defensive…
Contributor:
Moacyr Scliar
Places:
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Remember, I am with you: I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. —Genesis 28:15.
From the Midrash Shoḥer tov. “For the leader. Of the servant of the Lord, of David…
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Pinḥas de Segura
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1840
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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
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Elyokum Tsunzer
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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Penny Diane Wolin
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Cheyenne, United States of America
Date:
1997
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Michael Gitlin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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But leaving aside these allegations, and judging without passion, do they lack their own merits that would allow them to be saved with us, as we desire? No.
1. For their part they possess the…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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“I must go to carols tomorrow night.”
Mother is serving the soup. Chicken soup again, with noodles, for the third day in a row. While from next door, a roast tickles the nostrils. A myriad globules…
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Serge Liberman
Places:
Melbourne, Australia
Date:
1981