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When the young man from Broadway came to town and built factories, young and old, large and small came from the surrounding hills looking for work.

8m read Translated from Yiddish by Anita Norich

Europe becomes a room. The same room. Cramped and cold and dark as a cave.

27m read

There is a box of Holocaust hidden under my grandmother's sink. I hear it every day, at lunch time, when she stands over the stove holding a large wooden ladle

8m read

"Sometimes I feel the need to pray to God, to cross myself, to plead," she whispered. And immediately, as if dismissing an involuntary intrusive thought

20m read Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav

"May onions grow from his belly button!" Fania stood in the doorway. Her hat was wilted, her eyes were wild, her skirts spattered with mud.

15m read

Lily stared into the mirror in her office washroom checking her makeup. Who was she, this woman? The more she lived, the less she knew.

23m read

At first, Rabbi Moses Glitski had a hard time understanding exactly how the Zoom meetings worked. When he stared directly at the little rectangle on the screen

37m read

The rabbi calls to ask how many chairs you will need. You hold the phone against your chest and turn to your brother to ask

10m read

When she, all large eyes and frail bones, arrived, a man in uniform helped her onto the dock and asked her in Yiddish, "Vi iz ayer nomen?"

20m read

Not too long ago in the shtetl of Astoria, Queens, a woman walked energetically around her apartment.

16m read

It is late the next day when the news reaches them. When the doorbell rings, Hannah admits the air force officer and distractedly calls out to Gadi, her husband

23m read

"Hakshivu, hakshivu!" The wake-up call blasts through the loudspeaker, shattering Beth's dreams. Cold New Hampshire air bites her nose.

13m read