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I was then in Warsaw for the second time. That city had always exerted a powerful attraction for me, with its great and all-encompassing Jewish life. When I was in the Polish capital for the first…
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Yankev Botoshanski
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1956
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The truth, the mathematical truth, is that a new century begins on January 1 of the year one of the new hundred-year time span. But it is the custom to celebrate a new century on January 1 of the last…
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Melekh Ravitch
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1962
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Through the large portal of “The Jewish Gauchos,” one of the most moving literary tributes to the Republic in the first hundred years after the May Revolution of 1810, Dr. Noé Yarcho, the “miracle…
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Pablo Schvartzman
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1963
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I remember hearing the word pinkes several times when I was a small child.
For instance, when an unusual event took place in town…
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Leybl Shiter
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1951
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I. Of Pimps, Prostitutes, and Other SeducersWe saw some ten richly-dressed women, accompanied by fat-bellied men in top hats, standing at the green metal gate of the immigrants’ hotel. Through the…
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Mordechai Alpersohn
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1922
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For some days past, newsreels about the concentration camps have been showing in the movie theaters of Buenos Aires. The public can now easily observe the methods used by the Germans in the death…
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Alberto Gerchunoff
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1945
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I have the good luck to be a Polish Jew.
If I were a Greek Jew, a Dutch Jew, a Turkish Jew, or some other kind of Jew, I would be miserable. Who would pay any attention to me and who would be…
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Moyshe Nudelman
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1947
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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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1947