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Those who seized the youths to put them into the army in the city where I was born, desired to have, as a residence for themselves, a house adjacent to the one in which my father…
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Abraham Ber Gottlober
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1880
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…
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Moshe Goldstein
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1930
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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1894
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1917
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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)
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1910