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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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Eyner hot lib a kale mit a sakh gelt, der anderer hot lib a kale on a hemd.
Some like a bride with a lot of money, others like a bride without a stitch of clothes.
Khuts…
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Ignatz Bernshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
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Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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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)
Date:
1906
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I have always regretted one thing. When I ponder the Hebrew literature of all periods I ask myself: Why is it that our forefathers, who spent so much time on the study of matters of religion and law…
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Simon Dubnov
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1891
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Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of…
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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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)
Date:
1910
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Schedule of Lectures and Cl[asses] at the Courses of Oriental StudiesDaysTimesSubjectsLecturersSaturday8–?History of the Oral Torah [i.e., early rabbinic literature]Dr. L. S. KatsenelsonSunday8–10 a.m…
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Zalman Shazar
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1911
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An Addendum to the History of R. Moses Isserles
Rabbinic literature assigns to customs (minhag) an extensive and highly prominent role. In fact, the talmudic sages always looked upon customs with…
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Shmuel Aba Horodetsky
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1914