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Back in the day, we moved a long way from the center of town, which made me feel like we'd gone to live in the Wild West.

11m read Translated from Hebrew by Yaron Regev

After my mother died, my father would sometimes stop in the middle of the street, tuck his head into his shoulders

27m read

If there's a hole in one leg of my pants, I cut a hole in the other leg. If the hole I cut is bigger than the first hole,

40m read Translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Once, on an early June night, when Sholem was returning from a nearby shtetl and had reached the small forest

11m read Translated from Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Cries of childish joy echoed up the stairwell and into Julia and David's apartment. Many guests had visited them there.

24m read Translated from Hebrew by Yaron Regev

How many stories begin with a lion? A real lion? One with a golden mane, a catlike gaze, a majesty reserved for kings?

17m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

We had been there a few weeks — it’s probably best not to disclose precisely where. It was February, Brazilian summer

14m read

It is a special date for the Germans. After decades, Berlin is once again the capital of Germany, now reunited.

23m read Translated from Portuguese by Claudio Bethencourt

I am sitting on a black leather couch, in a sparsely furnished large apartment

26m read

It never failed. Whenever the sergeant was looking for a chump—someone for a patrol or KP, someone to help dig a latrine

31m read

Lieber Anschel, Lieber Franz, I am sorry for the sudden bout of intimacy, sorry if I tired and inconvenienced you

19m read Translated from Greek by Mina Karavanta

She thinks it must be the statues of another religion, though they aren't statues.

44m read

Hannah waited twenty-four hours before calling the police, knowing her mother, Rokhl, would have been mortified: O mein Gott! The police!

22m read

When I was a young girl, my brother came home one day with the news that he was going to study dance

10m read Translated from Yiddish by Sonia Gollance

The meeting had ended a quarter of an hour earlier and the area between the People's Council offices and the House of Culture slowly emptied.

16m read Translated from Czech by Melvyn Clarke

As Ephraim listened to the ebb and flow of air in and out of the boy's chest, his own breathing relaxed

12m read