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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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ca. 1863
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In honor of Jacob’s daughter who was raped by Ben ḤamorWhy should you weep my sister Ruḥamah,Why are you downcast, why does your spirit quiver,And why have your rosy cheeks wilted?Because raiders…
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Judah Leib Gordon
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Russian Empire (Lithuania, Lithuania)
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1881
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‘Arukh ha-shulḥan, oraḥ ḥayim § 75:7And now come and let us shout out against the licentiousness of our generation, on account of our many sins. For it has now been many years that the daughters of…
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‘Arukh Ha-shulḥan (Yeḥiel Mikhl Epstein)
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Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)
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1903
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David Yakerson
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
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1918
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When a woman has within herself as much of what is masculine as a man has within himself of what is feminine—i.e., what he lacks in Masculinity, then in their sexual union the divided parts of M and F…
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A. Vayter
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1908
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4]
The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
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Miriam Markel-Mosessohn
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Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
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1868
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Grandma Rekhl—my mother’s mother, whose name the members of the household and the people of the town all pronounced with exactness: Rekhl precisely with an “e,”…
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Ḥayim Tchemerinsky
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1917
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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1891
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Reb Shmelke:
Well, I can see that you are a clever man, so I will tell you the whole story in brief. [He takes a drink.] As you see me before you, I’m called Reb Smelke [Shmelke, as pronounced by a…
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Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire (Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1839