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Contributor:
Ze’ev Ben-Zvi
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1938
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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A Jewish musiker,
Alex Herzovitch,
wound his Schubert around and around
like diamonds.
Morning to night, happy, oh happy,
he ground out that same old
sonata, ground it by rote, ground it
to a…
Contributor:
Osip Mandelstam
Date:
1931
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She heard a sudden loud squeaking, so she raised her head. Seeing the cart she let out a happy shout: “A troupe!”
Her mother came out from the kitchen and looked through the window. “A fat lot of good…
Contributor:
Fradl Shtok
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Hanin,‘Abd al-Khaliq, Ilyas, Butrus, and those [actors] previously mentioned.
Hanin:Good morning, Mitri! Bonjour, Istifan!
Mitri:What morning? It’s noon already, you wino!
‘Abd al-Khaliq:And…
Contributor:
Ya‘qub Sannu‘
Places:
Beirut, Ottoman Empire (Beirut, Lebanon)
Date:
1912
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
Contributor:
Arnold Schoenberg
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
Contributor:
Ber Kratko
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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This tale is very different from the other stories and more interesting. [ . . . ]
A melámmed was in his home, and he was so starved that his belly…
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A. Litvin, Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Unknown
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Tangier, French Protectorate of Morocco (Tangier, Morocco)
Date:
1914
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Maurice-Louis Branger
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1914