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As the only one of the three Tischler brothers still in Kansas City, Martin naturally saw much more of their mother than Lewis or Jack did...
54m read
“What a pleasant surprise!” Ditsa and Yoss exclaim when they open the door and engulf Yona with hugs and kisses before she has time to decide whether this is just a routine welcome...
40m read Translated from Hebrew by the Author
Right off, Norman would know: is Rosa happy or not. Pointblank, he’d tell you: "She never is.”
56m read
Lying to her husband gets Brurya out of the house. Asking him for a get, a divorce, gets her beaten...
19m read
We were strolling along the shore of Lake Ladoga: Lyonya Kogan, my friend from the days of our youth
26m read Translated from Russian by Mira Isabella Shrayer and Emilia A. Shrayer
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
Nina dropped her fork back onto her plate. “Are we done yet?” “It's time to fill Elijah’s cup,” Mom said...
16m read
I hate Passover. Some people think of it as the Jewish Thanksgiving. Not me. I never look forward to it...
20m read
My youngest son, Joseph, became obsessed with the plagues shortly after his tenth Passover Seder...
9m read
Her family, or what remained of her family, gathered around the bare wooden casket in which her body lay shrouded in silence.
27m read
Every morning I pray that Saul will write to me, just so I know he is alive. The not knowing is tearing me apart...
8m 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
The Report from 1928 summarizes the “serious investigation” undertaken on December 31, 1928 by delegates I.M Wechsler and Suchar Feller...
17m read Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris
One morning, the bus leaves the main road and turns into the roundabout. The entrance to the Villa...
19m read Translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger
How Zohara Balaban managed to find the two security prisoners from the district jail to take the place of her husband at night, God only knows...
41m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
