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In an air-shaft so narrow that you could touch the next wall with your bare hands, Hanneh Breineh leaned out and knocked on her neighbor’s window.
“Can you loan me your wash-boiler for the clothes?”…
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Anzia Yezierska
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1919
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The refugees sat with their spoons halfway to their mouths, apparently listening with great seriousness, and trying with all their might not to burst into gales of laughter. The long, skinny lady left…
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Esther Singer Kreitman
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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Jacques Offenbach
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Paris, France
Date:
1867
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Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:
Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that…
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Elana Dykewomon
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Oakland, United States of America
Date:
1997
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It was an afternoon in the middle of April when the accident occurred. The year was a leap year, rainy and warm, and on that summery spring day in the commune he had already been given the job of…
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Yosef Haim Brenner
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1920
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Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
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Neḥamah Pukhachewsky
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine (Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Old Levi turned his face away that was so easily stained by tears. Again, he felt a twinge of longing for his terrestrial home. How strange it was, this longing for a miserable land where one had…
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Anna Seghers
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Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1944