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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1901
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David and Nicolás raised a dove for me. They had her for about a month in the count’s house, trying to become fond of her because she was from the messenger race, and they wanted me to use her to send…
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Gerardo Mario Goloboff
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1984
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If one looks closely at the passers-by in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto one can see that the overwhelming majority of them are not originally from Warsaw, but are from…
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Abraham Lewin
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Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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Among the dreamy pines
As evening light is slowly dying
And a lonely bell still chimes
So many songs, so many stories
The stony hills recall . . .
Around her heart my city carries
A lonely ancient…
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Naomi Shemer
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1967
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The library is an integral part of public education.—“Public Libraries.”
The library and the public school occupy the most important…
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Helene Sheinberg
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
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Joseph Barishac
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Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1912
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The resolution of the heder commission and the OPE [The Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia] Committee indicates that our task went far beyond the limits of a…
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Felix Shapiro
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Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1912
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“The story began in the year . . .”
But he forgot which year it was, so you must make do without it.
“It happened towards the end of Elul, when people say slikhes, penitential prayers. A town is a…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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For twenty-two years I have been one of the parnasim [board members] and leaders of this magnificent congregation, the city of Lwów; my heart has moved me to do good work in memory of the generations…
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Solomon Buber
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Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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I have been considering for a long while responding with my opinion on the law and the truth concerning occasional improper events that occur thus. For years wars have raged between kings, as is well…
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Raphael Samuel ben Jacob Arditti
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1890/91