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The story of my life is only exceptional in that it represents a great change of identity in the heart of the Jewish people. [ . . . ]
I was born a Jewish Algerian—a French citizen to boot—and during…
Contributor:
Léon Ashkenazi
Places:
Orsay, France
Date:
1967
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere.
Thi…
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Shmuel Gordon
Date:
1966
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My childhood, if we’re speaking of relations at home, was exceptionally easy; I never felt a need to rebel against my parents’ conservatism. I encountered no gates to break through—they were all…
Contributor:
Artur Sandauer
Places:
Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1963
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These high officials were not accustomed to wearing European-style shirts. When they decided to dress in the European style, they asked a certain ham, Daniel Andjel, whose shop at the Women’s Market…
Contributor:
Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1881–1902