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The refugees sat with their spoons halfway to their mouths, apparently listening with great seriousness, and trying with all their might not to burst into gales of laughter. The long, skinny lady left…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1944
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Apples. That’s what New Yorkers of the 1930s remember. Apples of the Hesperides, neatly stalled on corner after corner, sold on the last trembling line of decency by men who were unwilling to beg…
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Hortense Calisher
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1972
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to…
Contributor:
Bob Dylan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1965
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1730s–1740s
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Being rich is no picnic. It’s no good to be wealthy, especially in Mexico. You get what I’m saying? It’s no good!
When people talk to me, they suck up to me, all smiles and flattery: It’s señora Tinif…
Contributor:
Abraham Weisbaum
Places:
Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1959
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The entire city is talking about the tumult, the uproar in the Jewish Quarter that began after the price of meat started to rise.
The prices for meat not only went up in the Jewish Quarter. The Trusts…
Contributor:
The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
Contributor:
Sarah Shapira
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1896
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Alfred Wolmark
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Concarneau, French Republic (Concarneau, France)
Date:
1911
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Much has already been written about the Jewish colonies in the Crimea. Unfortunately, most of the information is buried under a mountain of statistics, historical data, and political…
Contributor:
Leon Dennen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934