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Contributor:
Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic
(Drohobych, Ukraine)
Date:
1920
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One of our greatest sins in the eyes of the Jewish bourgeoisie has been that in the course of the thirty-five years of our existence as a party we have not ceased to defend the simple idea that we…
Contributor:
Henryk Erlich
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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From the pioneer “intelligentsia” who lived in Vilna at the time, we must note Iulii Tsederbaum-Martov (people called him “Aleksey with the limp”), Arkadii Kremer (Aleksandr), Pati Srednitskaia (she…
Contributor:
Beinish Michalevich
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1921
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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
Contributor:
I. M. Veisenberg
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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1929
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Far, far from the paved roads and broad ways, far, far from the ordinary shtetls, stood isolated villages that had a different sky over them and a different sun.
The God of heaven in His mercy made…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Date:
1919
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…
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YIVO
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1936
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A Jewish Wedding
Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard
Driving horses foaming at the mouth,
Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive
To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ]
But from a…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1924
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How can it be told in simple, quiet words?
How can you gloss over the sharp outcry
So that people will listen to it and be silent,
With mute eyes, even without a sigh?
Without a sigh, since every…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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Women have always played a noticeable role in the Bund movement. Even at the dawn of the Jewish labor movement they were distinguished by their number and activity. The mass movement in Vilna began…
Contributor:
Anna Rozental
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Date:
1937