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Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
Contributor:
Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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For four hours I sat engrossed while old Gershon Falk told his story, feeling all the while as though I were listening to a fantastic saga—as though I were in the presence of one from another time…
Contributor:
Sh. An-ski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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Meanwhile Reb Zalman, all undeterred, was arranging a match for Deborah, and one evening he arrived with a brand new proposal, one that was—in these hard modern times—almost too good to…
Contributor:
Esther Singer Kreitman
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1936
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Danzig, Kingdom of Prussia
(Gdańsk, Poland)
Date:
1838
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The women of our family will come to me in dreams at night and say:
Modestly we carried a pure blood across generations,
Bringing it to you like well-guarded wine from the kosher
Cellars of our…
Contributor:
Kadya Molodovsky
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1927
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He did not object to their unending walk, on and on until they reached a quiet spot. He did not complain of feeling tired. He did not insist that the blanket should be spread somewhere nearer to other…
Contributor:
Adolf Rudnicki
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1951
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Once upon a time the tsadik Rebbe Levi Yitsḥak of Berditshev was in the city of Polonnoye, and an acquaintance approached him. He [the acquaintance] was an extremely poor man, with three sons and two…
Contributor:
Aaron Zeilingold
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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The question arises: How did my mother, who, with her first husband, the feldsher, resided in spacious rooms, with brass handles on the doors, come to be with Father, a village Jew who…
Contributor:
Yehoshua Perle
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935
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King Solomon, peace be upon him, says in…
Contributor:
Rebecca Tiktiner
Places:
Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tykocin, Poland)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century