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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1936
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
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Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937
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Jennings Tofel
Places:
Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Second Polish Republic
(Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland)
Date:
1929
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Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
Date:
1766
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Moses Michael Rosenboim
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Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia
(Trzcianka, Poland)
Date:
1848
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This 1934 illustration of the Passover story of the four sons features a caricature of the “wicked” son dressed as Hitler.
Contributor:
Arthur Szyk
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1934
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The first Po‘ale Tsiyon group in Poltava was born out of the theoretical battle between Zionism and the journal Iskra [the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]. Up until 1905, [Dov Ber]…
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Yaakov Zerubavel
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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See the Mount of Olives and the Greek monastery.
Minarets and cupolas abound,
Squares of yellow houses like honeycomb.
The valley of Josephat, white, dry fields—
There in the dell, where it is…
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Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1922
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Is it any wonder that the sick are so pure and tender,
gazing across vast distances, seeing things that no one else does,
staying up at night, and smiling in the darkness,
as they caress their beds…
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Yisroel Shtern
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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The Führer inquires of General Franco, “Comrade, how did you solve the Jewish problem?”
Franco answers, “I instituted the yellow badge.”
“That’s nothing,” says Hitler. “I imposed tributes…
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Shimon Huberband
Places:
Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1941