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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but…
Contributor:
Dov Ber Slutsky
Date:
1936
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1938
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“There is no Jewish music!” Thus concluded not only our assimilationists but also most of our nationalists.
We will not argue with the former at all, since, according to them, because there is no…
Contributor:
Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1907