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Abel Pann
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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[This testimony was] given by rape victim Rivke Shif. She is the wife of Shabse Shif, a shoemaker specializing in shoe uppers. (He lived at 11…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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Now the days of the pogroms came, and the hands of the masses were raised against the Jews to strike and destroy them. Socialism disgusted me. Not from the idea, which I still hold even more strongly…
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Yehalel (Yehudah Leib Levin)
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
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1882
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Brothers!
The slaughter and plunder in Kishinev, the likes of which have not descended upon us since the days of Chmielnicki and Gonta—command us to open our eyes and see our status in this country…
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Union of Jewish Writers (, Ben-Ami, Simon , Yehoshu‘a Ḥana , Chaim Nahman )
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire
(Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Every day they took from us whatever their hearts desired. They said to us, “We are needed to protect you from the mob.” We had no choice but to believe them. We had to take being cheated. They…
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Elhanan Helen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1616
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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“You come from Poland, Monsieur David . . . ?”
“Davidovich.”
Lévy, his host, looking with desperation at the traveling salesman, supplied the name. Still sweating from fear, Lévy was now sweating for…
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Jean-Richard Bloch
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(France, France)
Date:
1912
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire
(Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903