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Older people still remember it. Younger people know about it from reading our classic writers of the older generation: how Jews once gave much thought to naming a child, long before it was born and…
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Moyshe Altman
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1968
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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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Jerusalem, our holy city, our soul’s yearning and the joy of our hope! Beautiful landscape, the joy of the entire land, if not the city of a great king (Psalm 48:1) . . . Now we cannot know how it was…
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Elhanan Leib Levinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1892
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Netanel Leichter
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1898
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Józef Awin
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1909
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Georgiy Schleifer
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1898
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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1894