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We are limiting ourselves here to reworking the materials about causes of death and illnesses among Jews. The causes have in recent years been shown to the public in the official…
Contributor:
Israel Koralnik
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1928
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…
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Early 7th Century BCE
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Hersh (Grigory) Inger
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1968
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Pantel the wagon driver stretches out under the covers and sits up, yawning. The house is dark but a faint light is just beginning to penetrate through the peepholes in the shutter.
“It’s…
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Ojzer Warszawski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Once upon a time, in the “good old days”—some ten or twenty years ago, let’s say—the people in Shklov still did not know what newspapers really were like. Their sole source of news was a solitary…
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Zalman Shneour
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1936
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I am Mani Leyb, whose name is sung—
In Brownsville, Yehupets, and farther, they know it:
Among cobblers, a splendid cobbler; among
Poetical circles, a splendid poet.
A boy straining over the…
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Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived.
There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…
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Eliezer Levin
Places:
São Paulo, Brazil
Date:
1972
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Jewish graveyard near Leningrad.
Crooked fence of rotten plywood.
Behind the fence lie side by side
lawyers, merchants, musicians, and revolutionaries.
For themselves they were singing.
For…
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Joseph Brodsky
Date:
1958
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Benedetto Frizzi
Places:
Trieste, Habsburg Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1784