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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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1929
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It was Rabbi Benish’s practice to say his afternoon and evening prayers by himself in his study. When the news reached his ears he hurried to the prayer house. But it…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1935
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Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic
(Drohobych, Ukraine)
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1920
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Women have always played a noticeable role in the Bund movement. Even at the dawn of the Jewish labor movement they were distinguished by their number and activity. The mass movement in Vilna began…
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Anna Rozental
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1937
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A porch stage left, a little window. A tree at right. Under the tree a table on a wooden beam. Two solid old benches. In the background, a fence with an entrance in the middle. Behind the fence…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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1925
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When the forest-writer Avraham-Yisroel moved from the woods into the city, he had his own wife, three daughters, and two sons. He also had…
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Sh. Horonczyk
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1936
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The women of our family will come to me in dreams at night and say:
Modestly we carried a pure blood across generations,
Bringing it to you like well-guarded wine from the kosher
Cellars of our…
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Kadya Molodovsky
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1927
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My day—
Is punctured like a sieve,
And ridiculed like a whim.
May winter whiteness blossom,
May autumns turn gray,
May summers whistle—
Become nightingales.
When a rye-wind
Would have twisted my…
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Kadya Molodovsky
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1935
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Moyshe Broderzon
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic
(Łódź, Poland)
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1921
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[ . . . ] reb azrielke:
God’s world is great and holy. The holiest land in the world is the Land of Israel. In the Land of Israel the holiest city is Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the holiest place was the…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1920