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Reb Shmelke:
Well, I can see that you are a clever man, so I will tell you the whole story in brief. [He takes a drink.] As you see me before you, I’m called Reb Smelke [Shmelke, as pronounced by a…
Contributor:
Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1839
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
Contributor:
Noah Pryłucki
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910–1911
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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…
Contributor:
Sholem Asch
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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[Curtain]
Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:
How they weep, how they mourn,
The wind-borne dead!
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Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Rosa:Oh, is that you, my friend . . . I was beginning to wonder why I haven’t seen you for two days; I was about to accuse you . . . I was inclined to think that you didn’t want to see…
Contributor:
Maria Lerner
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Scene: A small garret room. A door is set in a deep recess at the back; there is another door at right. It is night. Several small children are bedded on wooden benches, and several more are asleep in…
Contributor:
Mark Arnshteyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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In three acts by the famous author Yitsḥak Katzenelson.
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Karmel, a rich Jewish timber merchant Mr. Kharaz
Yoḥanan, his son Mr. Mikhalesko
Bill, a gypsy captain Mr. Landau
Tarta, an old…
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Unknown
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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Contributor:
Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870