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1891–1954 United Kingdom
Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31 March 1891 – 13 June 1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. She was born in Biłgoraj, Vistula Land to a rabbinic Jewish family.
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The alleyway exuded an air of Yom Kippur - beautiful, sad and eerily quiet.
Yikhes (1949)
People make their way through the library like a dense forest, not knowing where it begins or where it will end. ("Two Libraries")
Yikhes (1949)
The teacher is still basking in the beauty of his own creativity, when he realises that his only listeners are the walls. ("Two Libraries")
Yikhes (1949)
The air downstairs in the cellar was grey and foggy. It smelled of mould and the chill of graves.
Yikhes (1949)
The earth lay there like a corpse prepared for an autopsy, its innards wet and glistening. Sewage pipes were sticking out everywhere, like intestines falling out of an open belly.
Yikhes (1949)
The small front garden was ablaze with colours and bursting with birdsong. The bright flowers of late summer were talking to each other intimately in their own, wordless language.
Yikhes (1949)
Satisfied, filled with the warmth of the bright sun, the birds were singing cheerfully, oblivious of the war taking over the world. ("Blitz")
Yikhes (1949)
The women had descended on the Lane like locusts, looking for bargains. ("Breaking the Fast")
Yikhes (1949)
"So there's no lack of poverty anywhere-not even in Warsaw! Ah, well, you'll find plenty of misery everywhere..." (Chapter VIII, p150)
Deborah (1936)
Hannah's words had pricked her like a needle. (Chapter III, p35)
Deborah (1936)
She was standing over the candles and with both hands covering her face she had softly poured out her heart to God in heaven. ("Breaking the Fast")
Yikhes (1949)
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