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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
Contributor:
I. M. Veisenberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
Contributor:
Efraim Kaganovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925–1926
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
Contributor:
Sh. Horonczyk
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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For two months, enfolded from head to foot in crusted, freezing snow, we lay in the trenches on the Polish–Bolshevik front in White Russia. We lay about sleepily, suffering from fatigue, immobility…
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Yisroel Rabon
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1928
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Mordecai walked home from the village on the path that bordered the forest. All the talk of the elders in the village chief’s house had intoxicated him more than the strongest whiskey. Under his…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Przemysl, Second Polish Republic (Przemysl, Poland)
Date:
1936