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A large load of old rags and broken things had been delivered to the basement of the junk dealer today, and the newcomers were received unkindly and with surly faces in all corners.
“Please do not…
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Else Ury
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1909
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Aron Wolf often terrified us children, and yet he was one of the most harmless people one can imagine. He never hurt anyone, nor did he ever approach any of us with as much as a word.
But…
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Isidor Borchardt
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(Germany, Germany)
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1910
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The little blue butterfly was born in the red bell of a morning glory. She had been a caterpillar before that and had lived for a while in a cocoon, but she could remember nothing about it.
She peeped…
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Anna Lesznai
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(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Hillel the Babylonian, the important teacher of Israel, was poor and needy, and his daily income consisted of half a zuz. One half of this he used for food, the other half he…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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(Germany, Germany)
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1916
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When we say that we want to remain Jews, and raise our children as Jews, we run the risk of being befogged by one of those meaningless phrases in which the Jews of this generation are particularly…
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Samson Benderly
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1911
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In the past there were no children among Jews, only “little Jews without beards,” so neither was there any children’s literature. Boys in the traditional heder used to read Ḥumesh [The Pentateuch]…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Pozo Moro, Kingdom of Iberia
(Madrid, Spain)
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ca. 500 BCE
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There’s a fire in the hearth
Warm and cozy as it gets
The rebbe teaches children
The Hebrew alphabet
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Mark Varshavsky
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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The “kindergarten” as a corridor to the salon of education, as a foundation for the tower of learning, has received particular attention among all civilized peoples, and all the more so does it…
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Yitsḥak Alterman
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Moscow, Russian Empire
(Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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Ellen Auerbach
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Deer Isle, United States of America
Date:
1940