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Concerning work, the holy texts and educated people have said very beautiful, important, and edifying things...

18m read Translated from Italian by Steve Siporin

At the gas station they said afterwards: ‘It all began with those two brothers from Wadi Ara who brought that crazy horse to Eitan Russo as a gift.’

18m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

"Jump," the old woman called out. "Jump into the water, meydele." Meydele. The old woman, the mikveh attendant, had mistaken her for a young girl.

36m read

One evening Uri's father Joseph announced furiously that Honoratus wanted to put up his idiot son of sixteen for the post of grammateus

8m read Translated from Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson

It seems that I dreamed about it when I was still in the cradle, long before I first saw it for real.

32m read Translated from Russian by Yisrael Elliot Cohen

Not dragging his feet despite being so tired, he who had been born in Istanbul without dreams of grandeur and without history walked as if all fear but also all illusion had been devoured...

37m read Translated from Spanish by Brett Alan Sanders

Membership in the Free Society of Firefighter Hunters, our voluntary fire brigade, has always been a matter of honour, for all prominent citizens of Minsk.

11m read

After their wedding, Dave and Mary opened a barber shop. With a few hundred dollars from their bank savings they bought the instruments and necessary furnishings...

59m read Translated from Hebrew by Stephen Katz

Chaya Silverman froze as Judge McGuiness prepared to deliver the verdict in the State of New York vs. Nehemiah Goldstein.

24m read

Chaim was a story teller and Zussa a faithful listener. At eighty something, he had plenty to tell.

29m read

"Being alone is lousy," Hank complained to his married daughter.

17m read

Siesta in Alexandria. An hour of siesta in the midst of an Alexandrian summer...

20m read Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

Herman Cogan is on the phone talking with his mother when she mentions the wing chair she gave him years ago...

11m read

When I was nine years old, I once asked my brother if he would rather burn to death or freeze to death.

19m read

She had come before. A tall full woman with milky arms who ran her fingers over the backs of his chairs.

18m read

Selected clippings from Josh's scrapbook: New York Times - Oct. 22, 2014 - An American male was killed yesterday afternoon by gunshot in the center of the city of Hebron.

32m read

A few hours after my nap, it was time again for calories and I was at the Kosher Nosh restaurant with the old flesh and blood...

16m read

On the day after Labor Day, sun slanting through Annie's bedroom blinds already looks like autumn, the white glare of summer faded to muted orange.

26m read

The fig tree stood in the center of the courtyard. It was small but shapely, with a supple trunk covered in light brown bark.

26m read

Nine days before the bat mitzvah of their daughter Rebecca, what Hannah and David had dreaded most since Rebecca's birth came to pass.

21m read

The day had finally come. Thirty-four years a member of the congregation, ten of those years in apprenticeship, and tomorrow I would finally become the shamash.

21m read

When his stepson asked for help with a school project, Paul Haberman agreed without hesitation. It was early May of 1991, ten years after Paul had joined the family...

31m read

The envelope poked out from where Beryl had slotted it among bills paid and unpaid, its top jagged where she had ripped it open.

8m read

The sun is rising on a full moon and an old man readies himself, as he does with every full moon, for the hardship that the day will bring.

15m read