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“Practically everyone has seen the prize-winning musical about the lovable people in that little village in Old Russia called Anetevka [sic]. Well, as far as we’re concerned, ‘Fiddler’ made a goof!” M…
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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New York, United States of America
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2001
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…
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Psoy Korolenko
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Moscow, Russia
Date:
2003
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Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half…
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Yehouda Shenhav
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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This tombstone of Abraham Roccas (d. 1587) is located in the Cloister of the Papal Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome, Italy.
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1587
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
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Reuven Rubin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1923
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1940–1942
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Felix Nussbaum
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1943
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It was, in fact, our aunt who had commissioned the bus. Madame Léa Josué Chanaan was our aunt and we called her Aunt Chanaan, just as we called her husband, Monsieur Josué Chanaan, our uncle, although…
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Armand Lunel
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Monaco-Ville, Monaco
New Haven, United States of America
Date:
1926
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The university was closed the day before yesterday, 9 December, in anticipation of the 10th. Quiet days, however: the occasional scuffle and an unremarkable street demonstration.
In any case, things…
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Mihail Sebastian
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Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
(Bucharest, Romania)
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1934
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New and hitherto unknown words have entered our dictionary. These words can now be heard at gatherings, and even more in private conversations, and sometimes we read them in the press. And if, until…
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Moshe Beilinson
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Petah Tikvah, Mandate Palestine
(Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel)
Date:
1927