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Once upon a time in a small village a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a little one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the man and his wife often…
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Margot Zemach
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1977
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Against the setting sun, in the fields near a kevutzah in Palestine, a group of young halutzim are dancing. All day long they have worked hard on the land. The morrow brings another day of…
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Corinne Chochem, Muriel Roth
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Newark, United States of America
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1941
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Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo…
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Leo Spitzer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1998
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בָּרוּךְ הַמָּקוֹם בָּרוּךְ הוּא. בָּרוּךְ שֶׁנָּתָן תּוֹרָה לְעַמּוֹ יִשְׂרָאֵל. בָּרוּךְ.הוּא: כְּנֶגֶד אַרְבָּעָה בָנִים דִּבְּרָה תוֹרָה. אֶחָד חָכָם. וְאֶחָד רָשָׁעוְאֶחָד תָּם. וְאֶחָד שֶׁאֵינוֹ יוֹדֵֽעַ לִשְׁאוֹל…
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Herbert Bronstein, Leonard Baskin
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Chicago, United States of America
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1974
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Mah Tovu notes our coming into the house of God, symbolized by the words “tents” and “tabernacles.” Mah Tovu begins with a passage from the Torah (Num. 24), in which the pagan prophet Balaam blesses…
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Lori Justice-Shocket
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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2004
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At the end of the workday, the children were allowed to visit their parents and relatives for one hour. Sometimes there were longer visits on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. But there were no visits…
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Susan Goldman Rubin
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Malibu, United States of America
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2000
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One day, Elijah the Prophet was walking down the road. It was a bright, sunny day. Tree branches blew softly in the wind, and small birds chirped around his head. As he walked, he began to think about…
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Nina Jaffe
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New York, United States of America
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1997
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…
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Claudia Roden
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Hampstead, United Kingdom
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1996
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Verse 1Sadie Cohen left her happy homeTo become an actress lady,On the stage she soon became the rage,As the only real Salomy baby.When she came to town, her sweetheart MoseBrought for her around a…
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Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Edgar Leslie
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1909
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PrefaceSince through the good Hand of GOD upon me, he has not only taken Moses’s Vail from me, but even has Placed me in his Service, i.e. to Teach and Promote the Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue at…
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Judah Monis
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Boston, Kingdom of Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)
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1735