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1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1860
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…
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Simon Gelberg
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1901
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
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United States, United States of America
Date:
1898
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Mordechai ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Libya, Libya)
Date:
1907
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1890
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Marcell Komor, Jakab Dezső
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Subotica, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Subotica, Serbia)
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1901–1902
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Sheet music for “Die fire korbones” (The Fire's Victims). This song was written in memory of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which broke out on March 25, 1911…
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1911
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1729
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In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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Alessandria, Duchy of Milan (Alessandria, Italy)
Date:
1587