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Jewish children grow up quickly. If only their bodies ripened as quickly as their hearts and minds! Were this an artist’s crayon in my hand instead of a pen, I would draw the following caricature of…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1913
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After Moshkele found his way to the Goyim’s Street, he began to be a regular and made the acquaintance of the shkotsim [“goyish” boys]. At first they mocked the little Yid who had wandered…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Dov Berkowitz
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1903
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Life is like a river;we are fish.The water’s wholesome and freshand we would swim forever,but for a black figureon the riverbank.There Satan stands,in his handsa fishing rod,and catches fish.With a…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1888 and 1908
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Tunis, Rosh Ḥodesh Adar 5648
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief enters in, and the troop of…
Contributor:
Shalom Flāḥ
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1888
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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…
Contributor:
Abraham Ber Gottlober
Places:
Dubno, Russian Empire (Dubno, Ukraine)
Rivne, Russian Empire (Rivne, Ukraine)
Białystok, Russian Empire (Białystok, Poland)
Date:
1880