The lonely pinacle
My roughneck cousins rolled on the ground holding their stomachs with laughter at the sight of me, wailing pitifully, caught in the midst...
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leon gork tour guide
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Shull - The place where Jews go to worship God.
The tall white building was entered from the western side. I looked up at the Star of David-shaped window in the gable above the...
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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 11, 2022
- 3 min
Insult can bring understanding
Once again an insult brought me self-understanding, the most important achievement of a human being. I had handed my iPhone with the...
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leon gork tour guide
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Cemetery
There they lie. The earliest inhabitants of Krugersdorp and the latest, row after row of black granite stones with names and dates carved...
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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
- Jan 13, 2022
- 6 min
The Disagreement
Tues 14th Dec 2021 Evelyn now used a walker. Holding on to it, she came to the door and there I stood. After not seeing her for about 2...
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leon gork tour guide
- Aug 29, 2021
- 4 min
What made me become a Hebrew Teacher
My love for Hebrew was certainly aroused by my feelings of affection for two teachers in the first years of school, Mrs. Kobrin and Rev....
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leon gork tour guide
- Aug 10, 2021
- 3 min
One Sweet Kiss
I was kept in bed by a memory of the first girl, besides my mother, whom I ever loved. As long as I lay, my head buried in my soft...
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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
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
Encounter in the train
I let her walk out of my life. Now her memory is in my mind forever. That was in about 1964. I even remember that it was in September or...
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