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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
Contributor:
Urye Kahan
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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Listen, Jewish children, and I will tell you a story about a penknife. It’s not a made-up story, but a true story that really happened to me. There was nothing on earth I yearned for as much as I…
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Sholem Aleichem
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(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1887
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1886
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Muhammad was tall and swarthy with a thin elongated face. His hair was dark; his black beard covered his chin; his eyes were black and deep with a spark of exhaustion, of despair, that flickered…
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Moshe Smilansky
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1906
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The whole day
In the roads’ realm
The whole day
Facing only wind
Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder
Just young lids between sun and eye
What in the world
Can be more beautiful?
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Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1925
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
Contributor:
Sarah Shapira
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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The secretary rises and begins to read out the indictment:“It has been nearly twenty years since Yiddish began to show signs of becoming a language, to stretch its limbs and demonstrate some forward…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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There’s a fire in the hearth
Warm and cozy as it gets
The rebbe teaches children
The Hebrew alphabet
Contributor:
Mark Varshavsky
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
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1867–1880
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At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out ever deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was…
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Bruno Schulz
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1934