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Maurycy (Mosze) Szymel was born in Lvov in 1903 in a Jewish environment. He graduated from the Jewish Humanistic Gymnasium and was first published in 1925 in Moments, Lvov’s Jewish [...]

I got used to warm sheets, to a woman, black coffee, and to vodka. I fell in love with my snow, covered hut, and hunger, satiety, and soft songs. I wouldn’t be able to live without a [...]

Sabbath, you are sacred to our hearts. Come on a winter night — we wait in a quiet and golden room where candle light shivers and flickers on a table. Looking at my mother’s face I [...]