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Four weeks before the completion of the new twelve-story addition the store advertised for two hundred experienced saleswomen. Rachel Wiletzky, entering the superintendent’s office after a wait of…
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Edna Ferber
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1918
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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
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto
Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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Solomon Yudovin
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1912–1914
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This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…
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Artist Unknown
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1905
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In 1905 a group of Jewish Social Democrats left the party in Galicia in order to found their own organization of Jewish Social Democratic workers. The executive of the international Social Democratic…
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Otto Bauer
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Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1907
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Before I come to the main subject of my pamphlet, I would like briefly to consider why the Jewish socialists deserted the Jewish masses and what is the current state of mind of a substantial segment…
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Pavel Axelrod
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(Russia, Russia)
Date:
1882
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The cloak makers have hit upon an outstanding plan. Everybody knows that the greatest enemies of strikes are often the wives of the strikers themselves. That which the bosses cannot achieve with money…
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Unknown
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1894
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But look, girl, if you so rarely find the opportunity to take a book into your hand, at least make a point of reading good books, not such kitsch as the Spinoza novel you have just sent me. Why do…
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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The “kindergarten” as a corridor to the salon of education, as a foundation for the tower of learning, has received particular attention among all civilized peoples, and all the more so does it…
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Yitsḥak Alterman
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917