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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…
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Yehudah Katzenelson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Mikhail Trakhman
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1942
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Felix Lembersky
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1944–1952
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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…
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Isaac Babel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
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Maximilian Syrkin
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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Oscar Rabin
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1968
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A visitor came to the shtetl,
A stranger, with unrest in his step . . .
No-one recognized his unrest. No-one asked him:
“Stranger, are you weary?”
Across the blue sky the evening drew its curtain…
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Izi Charik
Date:
1924
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1886
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Robert Falk
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ca. 1924