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I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
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Abraham Uri Kovner
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1868
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1893
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From Kiev I took a wagon heading for Zhitomir. Few of my readers will still remember the long coach wagons in which the past generation traveled before the railroads…
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Yehudah Katzenelson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1917
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…
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Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish
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1891
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Alexander Baerwald
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(Israel, Israel)
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ca. 1912
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Mordechai ha-Kohen
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(Libya, Libya)
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1907
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
Places:
United States, United States of America
Washington D.C., United States
Date:
1898