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"Niels Lyhne"
Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
his native Lithuanian shtetl, Ponievezh, was among the many Jewish towns forcibly evacuated during the First World War, catapulting him and hundreds of thousands of other Jewish refugees into modernity.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
and his own brother Alfred, Lehmann believed that there was no future for Jews in Germany, and that Western Jewry must renew itself by reconnecting with the masses of Eastern Jewry, with their traditions and rituals.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Kesler and his people remained
Nechama Tec • Defiance
Zachary Hamed
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Who wouldn’t have believed it? Mona had even written it on the street once, right by the entrance of Görlitzer Park. She’d spray-painted a birthday cake and written “happy birthday leyla! berlin loves you!” under it.
Nazli Koca • The Applicant
He published the work under his recently adopted pseudonym, Shai Agnon.18 In 1966, he would win Israel’s first Nobel Prize.