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Older people still remember it. Younger people know about it from reading our classic writers of the older generation: how Jews once gave much thought to naming a child, long before it was born and…
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Moyshe Altman
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1968
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1916
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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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Wilhelm Wachtel
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1912
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Our master, the holy rabbi, told a tale of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (may his memory be for a blessing to the life of the world to come!). There was once a matter involving great danger to the human life of…
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Reuben Zak
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Ustyluh, Russian Empire
(Ustyluh, Ukraine)
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1906
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Honored Conference:
Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1908
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Mr. Engel concludes that the music to my songs is not folk, because, in his opinion, it includes the rhythms of waltz music and mazurkas, and these dance rhythms are used even in the cases where I…
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Mark Varshavsky
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1901
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There’s a fire in the hearth
Warm and cozy as it gets
The rebbe teaches children
The Hebrew alphabet
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Mark Varshavsky
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1900
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Netanel Leichter
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1898
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Józef Awin
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1909