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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
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Miriam Markel-Mosessohn
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Kovno, Russian Empire
(Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1868
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Grieve not at all on my departure for the Land of Israel (may it be built and established!). You gave me indeed a firm promise to that effect. And why should you be anxious? Many men travel years long…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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ca. 1797
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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…
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Jacob Brafman
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1869
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Nineteen nineteen was one of the most difficult years for the Bolsheviks. The civil war flared up in every corner of Russia. In Ukraine, Petliura, Grigoriev, Denikin…
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Daniel Charney
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Moscow, USSR
(Moscow, Russia)
Wilno, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Warszawa, French Republic
(New York City, United States of America)
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Late 1930s
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The compartment of the Berlin–Warsaw–Moscow train is warm and pleasant. The dining car is fully packed. One can hear various languages—French, German, English, Russian, Chinese, and…
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Israel Joshua Singer
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1928
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During the nineteenth century the lives of Jews in Russia underwent enormous changes. In pre-reform times most Jews lived in villages and small towns. Most were engaged in trade and…
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Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder
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1931
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[ . . . ] In regard to the boycott [of German goods], in my view, the rabbis ought to have stood aloof, at a distance, and not to have involved themselves with this at all, as this is an issue…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Republic of Lithuania
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1933
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…
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Zelig Kalmanovitch
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1942
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Silence, and a starry night
Frost crackling, fine as sand.
Remember how I taught you
To hold a gun in your hand?
In fur jacket and beret,
Clutching a hand grenade,
A girl whose skin is velvet
Ambus…
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Hirsh Glik
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1942
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After finishing the letter, Elisheva handed it back to Hogeh and gracefully added: “Would that letters such as this might appear more often in our literature! For only such refinement of language will…
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Abraham Mapu
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1857–1864