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Contributor:
Paul Goldman
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Herzliya, Israel
Date:
1957
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I have just spent a few days in Tunis.
My pleasure increases each time I return to that city and its inhabitants and experience the liveliness of the Avenue Jules-Ferry, and above all, the free and…
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Jacques Lazarus
Places:
Algiers, Algeria
Date:
1948
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The street lamps of the Old Town began to flare out in preparation for the night. And soon the yellow gas-lights shone in the shop windows too, and outside the little…
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Sholem Asch
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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The city modernizes more and more. One hardly sees those baggy, dark, unsightly breeches of old, the ones that Muslims, Christians, and poor Jews still wore in the middle of the last century. Until…
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Joseph Nehama
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1914
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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.
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1887
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1741
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Born in Halberstadt, northern Germany, Alexander David (1687–1765) served as Court Jew to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, providing the ducal court with luxury items as well as banking…
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Artist Unknown
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Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire (Braunschweig, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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On his way home Gurdweill tried without success to find the reason for Lotte’s strange behaviour. He went over everything he had said in her house in his mind: there was nothing that could have…
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David Vogel
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1929
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They would run into each other twice a day: early in the morning, going to work; and in the evening, coming back. They would see one another on the same sidewalk, but they were headed in opposite…
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Hirsh Bloshtein
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ca. 1930
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And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground;
Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round,
Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business,
Hawking papers…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915