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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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Luciano Morpurgo
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Safed, Mandate Palestine
(Safed, Israel)
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1927
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Fritz Landauer
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Plauen, Weimar Republic
(Plauen, Germany)
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1928–1930
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Ludwig Förster
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1854–1859
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Esther Oppenheim
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(New York City, United States of America)
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1730 and 1818
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Shenandoah’s mother proceeded to explain in detail how insurance was a genial medium for a man like Mr. Baumann. The important thing in insurance was to win one’s way into the homes and into the…
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Delmore Schwartz
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New York, United States of America
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1940
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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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1947
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Open a map, stretch out your index finger, run it along the winding contours of the Plata River, and you will come to a small black dot that does and does not seem like the…
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Samuel Pecar
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1954
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Artist Unknown
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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17th Century