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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
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Isaac Ber Levinzon
Places:
Kremenets, Russian Empire (Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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From the cradle to the grave,
A heavy burden crushes us . . .
Constrains the mind, destroys our strength,
Wreathes our brow with thorns . . .
And yet, with amazing power
Our lips run along the…
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Aleksander Kraushar
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1890
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842
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He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…
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Sholem Aleichem
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Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1900
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My Astarte, won’t you tell me: from where
Did you come to us in this valley? Was it in the hand of a merchant (Canaanite) of Sidon
From [the] city stronghold of the sea, through waves of agate…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Kirikovka, Russian Empire (Kirikovka, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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[Vocabulary list in (from right to left) Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian, with notes in French and English]CavernAntreПещераהאֶהלעמעְרָָהTo missManquerНе пѳпадать,פערפעהלעןהחַטֲֵא(the aim) въ цвльפעהל…
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Israel Ḥayim Taviov
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Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1896
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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
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Mordekhai Feierberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899