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In this city there are, in effect, for an approximate total of 60,000 Jews, about thirty Israelite culture groups, which are developing with relative prosperity and an excellent measure of success…
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A Buenos Aires Jewish Library
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1916
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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
ca. 1800
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Jankiel’s Concert was inspired by a scene from Pan Tadeusz, Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 epic poem, considered the national poem of Poland. The character of Jankiel, the Jewish innkeeper, is the most…
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Maurycy Trębacz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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Dedication to My Dearly Beloved Grandfather, Reb Mendalle Mocher Sephorim
To my dear grandfather, greetings!
Stempenyu, my first long novel, which I inscribe to you, is yours; not only because I have…
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Sholem Aleichem
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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Eyner hot lib a kale mit a sakh gelt, der anderer hot lib a kale on a hemd.
Some like a bride with a lot of money, others like a bride without a stitch of clothes.
Khuts…
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Ignatz Bernshteyn
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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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
Date:
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)
Date:
1925
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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…
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Unknown
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Rovere, Republic of Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)
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1585–1590
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I remember the moment when it dawned on me that my father did not impress the world at large as a powerful figure. We were at a camera store on the Plaza—a faux-Andalusian shopping district that…
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Calvin Trillin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1993