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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
Contributor:
I. M. Veisenberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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A Jewish Wedding
Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard
Driving horses foaming at the mouth,
Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive
To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ]
But from a…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1924
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How can it be told in simple, quiet words?
How can you gloss over the sharp outcry
So that people will listen to it and be silent,
With mute eyes, even without a sigh?
Without a sigh, since every…
Contributor:
Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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The terrace of the large coffee house in Berlin was almost empty, save for the occasional occupied table. The season had already turned autumnal. The weather was unpredictable, and the air carried a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925–1926
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This work, which I here make public, answers a scholarly need that became evident to me twenty-five years ago, when I was still a young student writing my first book, The Beginning…
Contributor:
Yitshak (Ignacy) Schiper
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1930
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
Contributor:
Sh. Horonczyk
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936