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Pinkes Varshe is a memorial erected by the immigrants from Warsaw in Argentina in honor of those generations of Warsaw Jews who, with their lives and struggles, with their heroism and spirituality…
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1955
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“Act dumb,” Otilia advised me. “Change the subject.” To help me understand what she meant, she illustrated by relating a conversation she had had with a neighbor. It was December, when a great deal of…
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Alicia Steimberg
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1971
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Weep and wail, O daughters of Zion!
The women were meeting in Don Moisés’ house to recite the lamentations required by ritual. These were the days set aside to recall the loss…
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Alberto Gerchunoff
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1910
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I remember hearing the word pinkes several times when I was a small child.
For instance, when an unusual event took place in town…
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Leybl Shiter
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1951
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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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1947
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Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…
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Samuel Pecar
Date:
1954
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On August 20, 1906, the settlers of the Jewish Colonization Association, meeting in the town of Basavilbaso, Lucienville Colony…
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J. M. Salva
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1908
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In this city there are, in effect, for an approximate total of 60,000 Jews, about thirty Israelite culture groups, which are developing with relative prosperity and an excellent measure of success…
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A Buenos Aires Jewish Library
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1916