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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
Contributor:
Ben-Avigdor
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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[Curtain]
Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:
How they weep, how they mourn,
The wind-borne dead!
N…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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“The story began in the year . . .”
But he forgot which year it was, so you must make do without it.
“It happened towards the end of Elul, when people say slikhes, penitential prayers. A town is a…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s