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Nuska Shkolnik, who had come on a four-day leave, cried those four straight. He’d been a whiner since childhood, and Lyovka never did manage to knock that vice out of him. All anyone had to do was…
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Inna Lesovaya
Places:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Date:
2005
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Before we write the answers to the wise man’s questions we will cite the questions he posed in his writings, so that the answers can be positioned opposite the…
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Mordechai ben Nisan
Places:
Kukizav, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kukeziv, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1918
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Aleksandr Tyshler
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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We see that the categories of understanding the nation produced in its adolescence are a result of emotions developed in its childhood. According to our approach, we can conclude that the Talmud—which…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1901
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I doubt if the Dreyfus case made such a stir anywhere as it did in Kasrilevka.
Paris, they say, seethed like a boiling vat. The papers carried streamers, generals shot themselves, and small boys ran…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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Laugh, laugh at all the dreams
I, the dreamer, declare them too.
Laugh that I have faith in mankind
And I still believe in you.
For my soul still yearns for freedom
I have not sold it for a calf of…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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Take me in under your wing
and be unto me mother and sister
and let your breast be my head’s rest,
home of my lonely prayers.
At the hour of mercy, at sunset,
list and I’ll reveal my sorrow’s root…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1906