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“There's a dance of fireflies, little lights turning around the boats of the Bay, tiny creatures chanting, fish jumping-the feast of early summer subsiding in the heat, and lemonades!”
― Shifting the Silence
― Shifting the Silence
“Stumbling down the streets of three different cities, the same crooked body, the same red face.”
― The Whole Night Coming Home
― The Whole Night Coming Home
“Despite all manner of degradation, humans stubbornly resist their own erasure. They refuse the role that fascists have written for them. They mock their oppressors. They create and love.”
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
“The four-leaf clover, the five-legged calf, the star with the six points.”
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“She would always remember how "excited young voices criss-crossed.... Little tongues of flame leapt up from person to person, and the whole attic was humming and sizzling like dry birch bark set aflame, throwing into the dark, dense night of the shtetl the voices' challenge and yearning.”
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
― Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Julia’s 2025 Year in Books
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