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Listen, Jewish children, and I will tell you a story about a penknife. It’s not a made-up story, but a true story that really happened to me. There was nothing on earth I yearned for as much as I…
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Sholem Aleichem
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(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1887
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1886
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Muhammad was tall and swarthy with a thin elongated face. His hair was dark; his black beard covered his chin; his eyes were black and deep with a spark of exhaustion, of despair, that flickered…
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Moshe Smilansky
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1906
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The whole day
In the roads’ realm
The whole day
Facing only wind
Just a narrow ditch between road and shoulder
Just young lids between sun and eye
What in the world
Can be more beautiful?
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Dovid Hofshteyn
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1925
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I have always regretted one thing. When I ponder the Hebrew literature of all periods I ask myself: Why is it that our forefathers, who spent so much time on the study of matters of religion and law…
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Simon Dubnov
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1891
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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
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Avraham Kahana
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Zhitomir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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Quick! Help! Save a poor girl!
A Hebrew servant girl screamed:
Help me, merciful people, hurry
and save me from this racing stag
who runs with such a fury.
Free my hands from his horns!
The woman…
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Sarah Shapira
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Sasow, Russian Empire
(Sasiv, Ukraine)
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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Solomon Yudovin
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1912–1914
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Wilhelm Wachtel
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Lwow, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1912