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Abraham Walkowitz
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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Emanuele Luzzati
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1969
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
Contributor:
Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1886
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A wall.
A blunt wall of human backs, arms, legs.
A gray bulwark with white round stains.
A defeated army in a cave, before maneuvers,
Waiting for doors to open.
Not cages unlatched, in uproar.
No…
Contributor:
A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
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Sholem Asch
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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Alfred Stieglitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902
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Alfred Messel
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1897–1902
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Louis Lozowick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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[One] of the most evident features of New York photography has so far not been addressed by writers: the fact that, in every account, the great majority of the photographers concerned were or are Jews…
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Max Kozloff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere.
Thi…
Contributor:
Shmuel Gordon
Date:
1966