My Father-in-Law
To his great surprise, he became a grandfather for the third time
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leon gork tour guide
- Jun 22
- 7 min
Family story Part 1
A Jewish family leaves Zarasai, where their ancestors lived for one hundred years, to settle in Asveja and later to South Africa
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 25
- 3 min
The flood
Ginger went out into the dark and rainy night. Driven, as if by a force beyond control, to consort with a female feline, the tomcat...
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leon gork tour guide
- Oct 22, 2022
- 5 min
My Father's Story
Note: I have put the story in my father’s mouth, as I believe he would have told it, had he been able. We had a child, a son, and wanted...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
My loving mother
Sin for me meant doing something bad to a woman. Theft held no attraction for me. I never longed to own something belonging to someone...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 27, 2022
- 4 min
Back to school
"Put your child back in school", my old uncle Louie, looking through half-shut eyes, filled with smoke, hurled this command, at his...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 15, 2022
- 4 min
Choosing the right path in life
In the eyes of my parents, I was a strange boy. When vacation time came around I was out looking for work while my friends sunbathed at...
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leon gork tour guide
- May 14, 2022
- 5 min
Meeting disappointments head on
I'd started with a bag full of marbles and ended with two. I kicked my feet against the wall, shifting my last two glass pebbles from one...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min
Krugersdorp Jews
David Super calls himself Dovid, the way David is pronounced in Yiddish, the language spoken in Eastern Europe, where Jews had lived for...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
Going to Heaven.
The first time in my life that I set eyes on a dead human being was a month ago in Toronto. Raymond’s wife had told me he was in the...
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leon gork tour guide
- Oct 9, 2021
- 3 min
Guilt and Self-pity
I released the handbrake of the brand new Hudson. The sensation of holding the steering wheel, like dad, as the vehicle rolled backward,...
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leon gork tour guide
- Aug 15, 2021
- 5 min
My Life 3 Learning and Wits University
I passed Matric. Successful me, from now on smooth sailing, the world at my feet, like a sweet apple waiting for me to take a bite. No...
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leon gork tour guide
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Embattled Egos
The daily order of events took an ominously different turn after I began walking, my knapsack on my back, I’d left out my task of...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Dudu (David) the puncturemacher.
Thousands of kilometres and I’d never had a puncture, thanks to Eli. He’d checked my tyres for donkeys years. One day his mother died....
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 30, 2021
- 4 min
The Plumber
Jack Holzman plumbers and plumbing supplies, up there in Human Str. on the ground floor of the building better known to the gambling...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
Playgrounds Jerusalem Tel Aviv
At long last Ariel and Lilach turned up with Ophir and Alon. Ariel had said they’d be here at 2 and now it was close to 5. I never give...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jul 4, 2021
- 2 min
Landscape by Noga
The big room one sees on entering our front door is divided into two, first comes the dining area then the living room. My six year old...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Listening to the conversation
I could only assume from the look on the faces of my wife and children that they were saying something interesting to each other. We were...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Covid Insight
Life was slowly returning to normal, after a year of lockdowns, wearing masks, not meeting with large groups of people. Each day Etti was...
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