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If you have never had a brother six years older than you, you will not understand the discomfort your parents have spared you.

12m read Translated from French by the author

Give me the kisses of your mouth— they are as sweet as the water that runs from the Catskill Mountains to the city of New York.

11m read Translated from Ladino by the author

Behind Platinum I see a couple of lonely monkey bread trees in the distance, looking like dumbfounded giants

32m read

Outside of Room 6, Nahum’s empty bed sticks out like a monument. I glance at the beds on both sides. On one side is Yitzhak

29m read Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

The sun wouldn’t rise for another two hours. The sky over Eilat was clear and the second quarter-moon had set hours before.

12m read

“You look like you had a nice outing,” Maryann said, when I returned to the brick bosom of the Golda Meir House.

19m read

After the 1917 abolition of the Pale of Settlement in Russia, Jews began to settle everywhere, in both the central and peripheral cities of the USSR.

14m read Translated from Russian by Alex Gordon

As Benjy Rosenbaum told me, he looked up from his Batman comic book for a second when a tall muscular teenage boy

25m read

“No problem, no problem. I will arrange it for you; phone me back within a week. Then for sure I will have found your file.

11m read Translated from Dutch by Minny Mock

The morning dissolves slowly. The day barges in brutally, with a crowd of people filling the streets. I am in the safety of the twilight

24m read Translated from Polish by Daniel Sax and Caroline Stupnicki

The scrubbed samovar was set on the small table with the drinking glasses; the house was swept already, and cleaned

33m read Translated from Yiddish by Joseph Reisberg