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As for me, I was born in Tsviatshits and my name is Mendele the Book Peddler. Most of the year I’m on the road, travelling from one place to another, so people know me everywhere. I ride all over…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Berdichev, Russian Empire
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1864–1865
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From Kiev I took a wagon heading for Zhitomir. Few of my readers will still remember the long coach wagons in which the past generation traveled before the railroads…
Contributor:
Yehudah Katzenelson
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
Places:
Berdichev, Russian Empire
(Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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[Same setting as the first act.
Jonah sits at his workbench. Across from him, on the bench, sits Zilberman. Next to the large table, Miriam stands and mends a shirt. The air shaft window is…
Contributor:
Peretz Hirshbein
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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The third whistle. Reb Zerakh Lilienthal clutched his beloved family to his heart, kissed them, and boarded the train. He did not have the strength to wish them well yet again. His throat was so tight…
Contributor:
Izabella
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1889
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk.
Hershele…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918
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In short, in addition to being affluent, our Reb Hoshea Heffler was also steeped in the holy books. He was a traditional Jew, who could not abide the maskilim, the enlightened ones. He always used to…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1865
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Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hannukah, of course.
You don’t go to cheder for eight days in a row, you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart’s content…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1900