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Ezra Salim's steps grew smaller and smaller as the ascent from Yosef-marrows to felafel-Shalom grew longer and steeper.
28m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
Tobsha Pechersky was hiding from the Nazis. He knew it without knowing it. He didn't know he knew, but deep inside of him, in the part of him where his love for her resided, he absorbed this knowledge.
12m read
Even after visiting his son a few times and becoming acquainted with the life style and dress code of the kibbutz
39m read Translated from Hebrew by Michael Sharp
Dear reader, it's not her goodness, her piety, her benevolence that I want to tell you about. Her name was Deborah, and in Bodovitz you only needed to say, "According to Deborah,"
8m read Translated from Yiddish by Jane Peppler
Abram Abramovich and Ivan Ivanovich sat exhausted on a damp, uprooted tree which they had just rolled off the road.
21m read Translated from Czech by David Livingstone
Once upon a time in Bukovina. A fairytale name, like a literary invention, there's no point searching for it on a map...
48m read Translated from Hebrew by Gilah Kahn-Hoffman
Laurita’s head throbs as she stands there for a moment, pausing but about to leave, with her hand on the doorknob, as she tries to understand...
17m read Translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger
It was like a law of nature: every May academics, their teaching finished for the semester, begin to travel.
30m read
