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Right after Passover, with the first rays of the gentle summer sun, a new worry erupted for the Jewish inhabitants of all the small towns—the call-up for military service. The “young toughs” began to…
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Fishl Bimko
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1921
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1833–1834
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Laws are always tainted by the passions and the prejudices of the legislator.
—Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
In 1807, Mordecai Blum, his wife Rebecca, and his son David were living in a…
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Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1841
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Aaron:
It’s all a plain lie. It’s because our Jews throughout the land in the little villages are so primitive, so stupid, they can’t even read. Anyone will tell them the most absurd things and they…
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Israel Aksenfeld
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Leipzig, Kingdom of Prussia
(Leipzig, Germany)
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Mid-19th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1831
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Goldman plodded through the sand and passed the place where the big shack, which had disappeared without a trace, had once stood, skirted the wild mulberry tree and arrived at the place which had once…
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Yaakov Shabtai
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1977
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This minute-book belongs to the members of the Psalms-Society formed here, at Aleksat, of the honorable Jews serving in the army of His Imperial Majesty Alexander, may His glory be exalted, at the…
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Judah Scheindling of Shkudy
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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“One morning—it was the fourth day of Hanukkah (the holiday of the Maccabees), when we were readying ourselves to celebrate the victory of our heroic ancestors, which was the capture of Antioch—the…
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Osip Rabinovich
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1859
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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In the days of Nicholas the First, the great tsar and emperor (May he live forever!) who…
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Joseph Solomon Lutski
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Yevpatoria, Russian Empire
(Yevpatoriya, Ukraine)
Date:
1840