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Never have I been content with my narrow, dark, gloomy world, and always am I aware of the contrast between the great, beautiful world and my tiny, ugly world. And always I say, “The place is too…
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Yitsḥak Twersky
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Shpikov, Russian Empire (Shpykiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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[This testimony was] given by rape victim Rivke Shif. She is the wife of Shabse Shif, a shoemaker specializing in shoe uppers. (He lived at 11…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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Mendele the bookpeddler says: Whenever a Jew comes to a journey’s end, he feels as if his hips are breaking, his back aching, and his knees shaking from being crushed and squeezed…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903–1912
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His sorrowful expression broke her heart. She’d always believed that her father was strong and would do whatever was necessary to retain his dignity and his self-respect. And now for the first time…
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David Bergelson
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1913
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I dragged my belongings over to Grandmother’s, my books, my music stand, and my violin. The table had already been set for me. Grandmother sat in the corner. I ate. We didn’t say a word. The door was…
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Isaac Babel
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915
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Brenner sinned. He went and published terrible heretical remarks, implying that the fundamental question is not the question of the Jewish religion, but the question of the place of productive work…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1911
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It is not only Jews who have come out of the Ghetto: Judaism has come out, too. For Jews the exodus is confined to certain countries, and is due to toleration; but Judaism has come out (or is coming…
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Ahad Ha-Am
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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In order to live, men must produce. In order to produce, they must combine their efforts in a certain way. Man does not as an individual struggle with nature for existence. History knows man only as a…
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Ber Borochov
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Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1905
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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These two Torah pointers (yadayim) are from Galicia, one made of ivory and brass and the other of wood. Yadayim (hands) are used during public reading of the Torah, so that the reader may avoid…
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century