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I will raise the matter of trimming the beard
He trims it away like leaven [on the eve of Passover]
He leaves only a small goatee.
One more…
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Unknown
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16th Century
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[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
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José Kozer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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Abraham Chajkes was famous throughout the town, nay, even throughout the entire district, as a decent, “solid,” wealthy merchant. [ . . . ]
He gave his growing children the best education according to…
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Wilhelm Feldman
Places:
Kraków, Russian Empire
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1889
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Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
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Neḥamah Pukhachewsky
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine
(Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
Date:
1911
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He is tall, strong, angular; his appearance as well as his speech give the impression of boldness and vigor. His voice is a high tenor ringing with mettle. And even in his quiet moments he resembles a…
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Moissaye Olgin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1918
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…
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Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish
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1891
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Sinyor Moshe Weinstein, who has recently returned from Chile, a free republic in South America, relates upsetting things about the Jews of this country.
The number of Jews residing in Chile barely…
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Unknown
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Date:
1903
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
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Joseph Barishac
Places:
Edirne, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1912
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“The story began in the year . . .”
But he forgot which year it was, so you must make do without it.
“It happened towards the end of Elul, when people say slikhes, penitential prayers. A town is a…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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From the silence of the night I heard a clamor,
Like the clank of chains of bondage, the sound of linked fetters
Jangling each other—
The heavens opened,
And suddenly a great flood of light burst…
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David Frishman
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Date:
1896