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An agent of the kahal who is charged with monitoring Jewish cases in the police and in giving gifts to officials is a Jewish middleman.
Jews utilize the art of the middleman not only in trade…
Contributor:
Jacob Brafman
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1869
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917