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In the days of Nicholas the First, the great tsar and emperor (May he live forever!) who…
Contributor:
Joseph Solomon Lutski
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Yevpatoria, Russian Empire
(Yevpatoriya, Ukraine)
Date:
1840
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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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That was how she watched over the samovar all night long, so that it would boil properly. Occasionally, Grandfather stayed over for several nights at the home of one of the gentry. Then, she would…
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Yekhezkl Kotik
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1912
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A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Tomaszow, Russian Empire
(Tomaszów County, Poland)
Date:
1890
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
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Pauline Wengeroff
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1913
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More than once I began writing to you, and each time I took my pen in my hand I felt in my inner heart that in writing I will say nothing—to see you face to face, heart to heart, and to fall on each…
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Zalman Anokhi
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(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1906
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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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Mendele the bookpeddler says: Whenever a Jew comes to a journey’s end, he feels as if his hips are breaking, his back aching, and his knees shaking from being crushed and squeezed…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1903–1912
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Never have I been content with my narrow, dark, gloomy world, and always am I aware of the contrast between the great, beautiful world and my tiny, ugly world. And always I say, “The place is too…
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Yitsḥak Twersky
Places:
Shpikov, Russian Empire
(Shpykiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1913