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Those who seized the youths to put them into the army in the city where I was born, desired to have, as a residence for themselves, a house adjacent to the one in which my father…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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1880
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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
Contributor:
Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
Contributor:
Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1873
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In the days of Nicholas the First, the great tsar and emperor (May he live forever!) who…
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Joseph Solomon Lutski
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Yevpatoria, Russian Empire
(Yevpatoriya, Ukraine)
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1840