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No such command had been issued, and no one had ever considered who it was that had granted the family such unlimited rights...
9m read Translated from Yiddish by Ruth Murphy
As spring arrives, work increases in the world of the Holy Blessed One!
32m read Translated from Hebrew by Herbert J. Levine and Reena Spicehandler
Mama bought me a beautiful necklace on my sixth birthday. "This is a special present." She held up crystal beads that sparkled...
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This time of day there's no one home, I thought. Only old people and the children, playing hooky from school...
11m read Translated from Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
A streetlamp flickered erratically as Hattay Sandor walked down the dark, damp alley, his hat pushed down over his brow
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On her way home, Elena Bruskina saw twelve women she’d presumed were dead reappear. The full dozen. Her breath hitched.
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It had always been Amy's story. As far back as she could remember, when she was six or seven or eight, her father, Hans, had told it to her when he tucked her in at night.
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Walking with Ana from Slatinanu, where the Party organization had its headquarters, to Cuza-voda,1 we’d come home late, as late as possible.
18m read Translated from Romanian by Jean Harris
Abke the Chewer's troubles began when he tried to do a good deed. He got himself into trouble and was thrown into prison...
25m read Translated from Yiddish by Helen Chava Mintz
It was the twenty-fourth of December and it was snowing.
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Brenda's glad it's only Friday night, that she'll have more than a full day alone before her father comes over.
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She was certain that he would not be killed. Other wives at the children's school in the moshav were puzzled
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"Wait." He put out a hand to grab her wrist and pull her back to the bed with him but she easily eluded his grasp.
“You look like you had a nice outing,” Maryann said, when I returned to the brick bosom of the Golda Meir House.
The fig tree stood in the center of the courtyard. It was small but shapely, with a supple trunk covered in light brown bark.
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We were walking around the East End of London and we were worn out. By the sun, and by the sense of history
10m read Translated from Danish by the author
"Put that book down!" Mom is yelling from the kitchen, but the only sound I hear is a muffled shriek.
Yisgadal v'yiskadash, shmei raba. That's his cue. The Mourner's Kaddish. His signal to alert the other guards
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