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Finally, a town. We ride through the shtetl of Tartakuv, Jews, ruins, cleanliness of a Jewish kind, the Jewish race, little stores.
I am still ill, I’ve still not gotten back on…
Contributor:
Isaac Babel
Places:
Sokal, Second Polish Republic (Sokal, Ukraine)
Komarow, Poland
Date:
1920
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
Contributor:
Dvora Baron
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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rebbe levi yitskhok
tsine, his wife
khayim, their son
gnendl, their daughter
taybele, their daughter
henekh yoel, gabbai
oyzer, butcher
zavl, butcher
itshe
mordkhe
moyshe
khveder…
Contributor:
Peretz Hirshbein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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As we look around us in contemporary America, we see large numbers of “Jews” or persons of Jewish origin (many of whom shed their recognizably Jewish names) in such areas as law, medicine…
Contributor:
Benjamin Harshav
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993
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“Practically everyone has seen the prize-winning musical about the lovable people in that little village in Old Russia called Anetevka [sic]. Well, as far as we’re concerned, ‘Fiddler’ made a goof!” M…
Contributor:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2001
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The Jews held cattle dealers in contempt. They considered them illiterate louts in no way different from peasants. My grandfather never let a cattle dealer into his house. Into the barn yes, but never…
Contributor:
Henryk Grynberg
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1970
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Rabbi Levi Yitskhok’s drayman—the one who wore
tales and tfiln as he smeared the wheels
of his wagon with tar—
turns up in the shape of a bunch of Jews
hanging around their houses,
washing the car
(w…
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Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1956
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We were too late. The pogrom erupted that very night, suddenly, like an exploding mine, and in my own neighborhood.
The first screams came to me confused, in a hazy dream. Then it dawned on me what…
Contributor:
Lamed Shapiro
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Joyous, free, the bird will sing,
Trembles on his throne the king,
Trembling is not good for me—
Like a bird I sing so free,
As winds prance,
In a trance,
Wild and blind, I roam and dance,
One street…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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The shtetl, lost here among Polish fields and groves, might be called Turek or Przasnysz, Konin or Maków, yet what one remembers is not the name but the old marketplace reeking of tar and dung where a…
Contributor:
Sofia Dubnova-Erlich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943