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So from one day to the next, Shaltiel Feigenberg and his family became famous. Their names and faces appeared on the front pages of newspapers. “The Mysterious Disappearance of a Jewish Storyteller” was one headline...

20m read Translated from French by Catherine Temerson

Every day I became more alert. The food was plentiful, the milk was fresh and tasty, and I gobbled...

9m read Translated from Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green

I won’t live forever. That thought, which seemed so obvious, struck me sharply when I tried to take a picture for the first time.

43m read Translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Moses and Ruth exit the municipal palace, and Moses hurries toward the striking sanitation workers to congratulate them on their spirited performance.

12m read Translated from Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman

He was small, skinny, timid, eyes always downcast. She the opposite, big, full-bodied, a Jewish Cossack...

15m read Translated from Yiddish by Ronnee Jaeger

The sixth division commander reported that Novograd-Volynsk was taken today at dawn.

13m read Translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk

Not so many years ago, there lived in the town of Buczacz (may His city be rebuilt, amen) a fine and upright Jew by the name of Menashe Chaim Ha'Cohen...

15m read Translated from Hebrew by Michael P. Kramer

He was shuffling among the Christmas tree vendors in the Lehel Square Market.

10m read Translated from Hungarian by Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry

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

On Sunday afternoon Mona Milner watched the snow fall gently past her windows and transform East Sixty-sixth Street into a lovely black and white lithograph of Old New York...

34m read

The first time Herschel Lefletsky's suspicions were aroused was the day that the scribe from Dubno came

49m read

My father calls to me from the other end of the apartment, his voice thin and urgent.

28m read