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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1880
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Gebrüder Henschel
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1813
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CharactersMaenoyakh, an old citizen of BethlehemShulamis, his daughterAvisholom, a young hero descended from the Maccabees.
Avisholom
I shall not leave here until I have rested
Jerusalem…
Contributor:
Abraham Goldfaden
Places:
Iasi, Kingdom of Romania (Iasi, Romania)
Briarcliff Manor, United States of America
Date:
1881
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Aaron:
It’s all a plain lie. It’s because our Jews throughout the land in the little villages are so primitive, so stupid, they can’t even read. Anyone will tell them the most absurd things and they…
Contributor:
Israel Aksenfeld
Places:
Leipzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
Mid-19th Century
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
Contributor:
Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire (Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868
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In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…
Contributor:
Salomon Sulzer
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1876