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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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However modestly my parents lived in the country, however little I was used to luxury and every comfort, at least at home I was used to cleanliness and order…
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Grigory Bogrov
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1863
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Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1913
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Brenner sinned. He went and published terrible heretical remarks, implying that the fundamental question is not the question of the Jewish religion, but the question of the place of productive work…
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David Ben-Gurion
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Shmuel Niger
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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June 17, 1888 [June 29 in the Gregorian calendar]
Dear Sir:
Several days ago, I received an undated and terse postcard from one of my friends, a person close to me, H. Epstein, in which the…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1888
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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Once upon a time the tsadik Rebbe Levi Yitsḥak of Berditshev was in the city of Polonnoye, and an acquaintance approached him. He [the acquaintance] was an extremely poor man, with three sons and two…
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Aaron Zeilingold
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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The resolution of the heder commission and the OPE [The Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia] Committee indicates that our task went far beyond the limits of a…
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Felix Shapiro
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Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1912
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
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Pauline Wengeroff
Places:
Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1913