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1922–2013
Yenta Mash (1922-2013) was a Yiddish language writer. She grew up in the region of south central Europe now known as Moldova, before being deported to Siberia in 1941.
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Well, well—you escape from hell and here’s the devil in your face.
Isn't it remarkable, my mother said, what people can take pleasure in, what they can believe in, in times of need?
Then the concert would begin. Fool or not, Mona Bubbe knew exactly how to behave when she felt accepted rather than pushed away.
What a country this is, she couldn't stop thinking, where as a new chapter of life begins, the children are teaching their elders how to be Jewish.
If this wasn’t the good life, what was?
We were slaves in Egypt, my mother said, and today we're slaves of Stalin, exiled to hard labor in the Siberian taiga, without rights and without the slightest hope of rescue.
All in all, it was a magnificent city project, which provided the starving population with cultural activities to consume along with our miserable crusts of postwar bread.