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If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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Berl had no father. His mother was very poor and had to go to strangers to make money for bread. Berl used to stay at home alone, and waited for hours for his mother. He had no sisters or brothers, so…
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Sarah Reyzen
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1914
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I think I have fully grasped usque ad ultimas differentias the meaning of the Company, its shares, its principles, its reputation, its splendor, its initiation, its progress, its…
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Joseph Penso de la Vega
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1688
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Some sort of strange, humid day. . . . Some sort of day with a ragged sun and low, dark clouds, like threads of smoke, already happened once before in the past: in distant years long ago, when our…
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Efraim Kaganovsky
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1923
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I am a circus lady
And dance among the daggers
Set in the arena
With their points erect.
My swaying, lissome body
Avoids a death-by-falling,
Touching, barely touching the dagger blades.
Holding…
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Celia Dropkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935
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That night, I was a clockwork doll
and I whirled around, this way and that,
and I fell on my face and shattered to bits
and they tried to fix me with all their skill.
Then I was a proper doll once…
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Dahlia Ravikovitch
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1959
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
Places:
São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Pinkie:[Jumping up] Johnny, did you ever hear of The Marshall Plan? The Five Year Plan? The Morris Plan? Now listen to the Pincus Plan! Let’s give up the business!
Johnny:[With a quiet intensity, as…
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Sylvia Regan
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
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The warm, beautiful sun let the beams of its light escape over all of France. One day in the middle of August, when the train coming from Paris to Marseille arrived at a station in the…
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Daniel Hàgege
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1909
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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…
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Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905