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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but…
Contributor:
Dov Ber Slutsky
Date:
1936
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This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian SFSR (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1919
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Who cares if eternity won’t know me,
if no one ever watches my footsteps—
but now, right now, when hearts are burning,
I come with fists in my song.
Of course I’d like to sing myself away,
to cry…
Contributor:
Izi Charik
Date:
1930
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
Places:
Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
ca. 1800
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The resolution of the heder commission and the OPE [The Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia] Committee indicates that our task went far beyond the limits of a…
Contributor:
Felix Shapiro
Places:
Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1912
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…
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Pauline Wengeroff
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Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)
Date:
1913
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This is no fairy tale, it really happened.
In our shtetl, there was a bright young man named Móyshele. He was as smart as a whip, and also a good-for-nothing. Then all at once he disappeared, and no…
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Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)
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Mogilev, Russian Empire (Mogilev, Belarus)
Date:
1908
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In the year 1885—when I was nine years old—I started working. My first job was in a little candy factory, where a few girls worked. I used to work a lot: 14–15 hours per day. My pay was 25 kopecks per…
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Khanke Kopeliovitch
Date:
1929
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Stalinstan,
Stalinstan,
Who is present and on hand
From the Party,
From the Union?
Who was on his way
Somewhere else today,
When a chain of men caught him
And then brought him
To…
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Izi Charik
Date:
1934
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Today, the world was unfurled once more and renewed.
The teeming earth, the whispering green, the swelling bud.
Everything shook, as the tense body of a virgin
Becoming a joyful wife might be shaken…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Date:
1929