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Sasow, Russian Empire (Sasiv, Ukraine)
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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Can you guess, children, which is the best of all holidays? Hannukah, of course.
You don’t go to cheder for eight days in a row, you eat pancakes every day, spin your dreidel to your heart’s content…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
Date:
1900
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Polonne, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
Date:
1728
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Osher Margolis was one of a handful of Soviet professional historians of Jewry. Like the others, he brought a Marxist perspective to his work. The work below, though focused on the nineteenth…
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Osher Margolis
Date:
1930
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Abraham Manievich
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Kyiv, Russian SFSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.
And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where…
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Itsik Kipnis
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1926
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On Russian fields, in the twilights of winter!
Where can one be lonelier, Where can one be lonelier?
The doddering horse, the squeaking sleigh,
the path under snow—that is my way.
Below, in a…
Contributor:
Dovid Hofshteyn
Date:
ca. 1919
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
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Leyb Kvitko
Date:
1923
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Blessed art Thou, Lord, our God,
King of the Universe,
Who has kept us and protected us,
and supported us until this day
it would be better we had never seen.
You deprived us of nothing,
neither…
Contributor:
Boris Khersonsky
Places:
Odesa, Ukraine
Date:
1996