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Thenjiwe:What place is this?Zachariah:John Vorster Square!Thenjiwe:Aaaah!Susan:They told me that they were going to charge me. That meant a lot of things. That I would be sent to Diepkloof to await…
The warden didn’t answer. He was scared to make a mistake, to say something that would be even more damaging to him, so he cleared his throat and didn’t say a word. The commander repeated his question…
Brickmaking by prisoners. Thebes, Egypt, 15th century BCE. This mural, from the tomb of the vizier Rekh-me-re, shows Semitic (“Asiatic”) and Nubian prisoners of war making mud bricks and repairing a…
“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
says the old Israel;
in You lies holiness,
Israel’s praises.
“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
You elevated us above other men,
You saved us from…
[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [
[ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?]
And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…
Wind bells over the river with an
Indian name: transplanted homelessness
disguised as a transplanted home.
The garden jingles. Odorous sandalwood censers,
kimonos and saris flashing well among
the…
When Jan Gross’ Neighbors first appeared in Poland two years ago, with its grisly account of the July 10, 1941, slaughter of 1,600 Jews in the small northeastern town of Jedwabne, it sank like a stone…
Many rabbis have never dealt with instances of domestic violence in their communities, and more are skeptical of its very existence. I, too, was skeptical until two women in my…
On a seasonable Saturday morning, Itchele decided that the time had finally come to get even with the butchers for their bloody triumph before the holiday. He got together a bunch of young toughs and…
To speak with competence about anti-Semitism, some studies would be necessary, which I have not done. I can therefore only give you my impression.
First of all, there would be grounds, I believe, to…