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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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I doubt if the Dreyfus case made such a stir anywhere as it did in Kasrilevka.
Paris, they say, seethed like a boiling vat. The papers carried streamers, generals shot themselves, and small boys ran…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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In many shtetls throughout Podolye and Volhynia we often find a mound next to the synagogue. Surrounded by a traditional cemetery fence, the mound is known as the Grave for the Bride and Groom. And…
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S. An-ski
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1912–1913
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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1939
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It is clear that if there were no other proposal for saving tens of thousands of our brothers from their hard and bitter sufferings, if there were no other way in which our people could be reborn and…
Contributor:
Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1881
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[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.
And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where…
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Itsik Kipnis
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1926
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
Contributor:
Leyb Kvitko
Date:
1923
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Abel Pann
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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[This testimony was] given by rape victim Rivke Shif. She is the wife of Shabse Shif, a shoemaker specializing in shoe uppers. (He lived at 11…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903