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leon gork tour guide
Oct 275 min read
The loyal brother
visit to a wounded brother led to celebrating Succot and homage to the martyrs of the Gaza envelope..
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leon gork tour guide
Sep 162 min read
Our House
Boulders of ice rolled down the corrugated iron roof
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 61 min read
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 227 min read
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 253 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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