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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
Contributor:
Mordekhai Feierberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
Contributor:
Isaac Ber Levinzon
Places:
Kremenets, Russian Empire
(Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1900