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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…
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Artist Unknown
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1500
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With this collection, we intend to launch a particular trend in Yiddish poetry which has recently emerged in the works of a group of Yiddish poets. We have chosen to call it the Introspective…
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Jacob Glatstein, A. Leyeles, N. Minkov
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New York City, United States of America
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1919
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“If God grant that the earth will be full of understanding, and everyone will speak the same language, Ashkenazic, then only (the form) Brisk will be written.” That is how Meir ben Moses Hacohen, the…
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Solomon Birnbaum
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Hamburg, Weimar Republic (Hamburg, Germany)
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1925
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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1937
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Friendship
It isn’t as easy as they say
Making friends right away,
I went down to the playground today,
To sit alone while others play.
The girls were having lots of fun,
Playing hopscotch and…
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Tirtsa Atar
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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Mar Abramowitz did not attend services in our temple. With a dozen or so other Ashkenazi refugees from Eastern Europe he worshiped in a tiny downtown loft that was said, by those who had never been…
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Victor Perera
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Santa Cruz, United States of America
Date:
1985
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Logemann began Kaddish, a series of ten ink, oil, and varnish paintings, in 1993 and completed it in 1996. Each canvas includes a circle with the Jewish memorial prayer in Hebrew and English…
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Jane Logemann
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…
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Psoy Korolenko
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Moscow, Russia
Date:
2003
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A people that forgets its dead is condemned to decay—Jules Guesde
We will never forget our dead. They still live among us and in our thoughts.
For that reason, immediately after the Liberation, we…
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Dovid Diamant
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1946
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Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955