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Fradl Shtok (Yiddish: פֿראַדעל שטאָק) (also Fradel Stock, 1888 – 1952?) was a Jewish-American Yiddish-language poet and writer, who immigrated to the United States from Galicia, Austria-Hungary as a teenager.
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They played some sad melody that drifted in through the window keeping people awake half the night. Some sadness would then grip the heart so you wouldn't know what it was you wanted.
Hungry, she'd run to the cemetery and undam a river of tears.
Esther was indeed a friend, but a friend is not as deeply rooted in one's heart as one's misery, as one's grief.
Old age brings a person troubles. Troubles make a person-make her old and gray before her time. Already little by little and thirty years old.
His laughter is meant to hide the greed that has begun to glint in his eyes. ("A Fur Salesman")
One must be stubborn to achieve one's goals, to be nobody's fool. ("A Cut")
She took a quick, furtive look at him and felt her heart blushing. ("The Daredevil")
Annie is an ignorant girl, who can barely sign her name. But even she can feel the music in her head. ("A Cut")
Just in the past two days the cherry trees had become a riot of blossoms. ("In the Village")
Gosi, on the other hand, was always a silent type, taciturn, stubborn. And while nobody blamed her, she didn't want to go to parties, always staying quietly at home, obstinately waiting for something. ("Sisters")
All this talk agitated Nessi. It seemed to her as though they were taking something holy and defiling it. Her train, her happiness. ("The First Train")
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