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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
I was born Tamma Millerman. Tamma is a Hebrew name that means "without flaw". In 1935, I was almost ten years old...
23m read
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
So in the end, everyone gave in and Pnina would stand under the chuppah with the gornisht. The ceremony would take place at the community hall on Rothschild Boulevard...
17m read Translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
The storm had lost some of its power. The rain, pouring down in unusual amounts since Thursday, had calmed down...
12m read Translated from Hebrew by Tom Atkins
Grandma Golda discovered pizza in the summer of 1953 at The Pelham Parkway Pizza Parlor...
16m read
Adina hadn’t yet turned onto the sun-blasted coastal road and she was already sweating in the air-conditioned car.
24m read
On the third day of his silence, at five o'clock in the evening, Albert left his apartment with a frame-rattling slam of the door. Elena jumped up, ran to the door and opened it, calling "Where to?"
45m read Translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
"What ails you now, that you have gone up entirely to the roofs?" - the Zohar. Avigdor Bronfman, an indifferent scholar, made his way across Orchard Street at twilight, on his way home from his Talmud Torah class.
60m read
Dear Odd Bull, It is extremely unfair and no one here will help me so I am complaining to you...
71m read
So, at a soccer field in Western Pennsylvania, I bump into this guy I used to know. It is a fear of mine, meeting anyone today from those years...
19m read
It was well past dark when the boys snuck out of their tent, untied two camels, and rode off into the desert...
17m read
