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While the townsfolk knew that an archbishop was coming, no one in Skalle [Skala, today Ukraine] made a big fuss about the news. It was only when pine gates were set up at the entrance that people…
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Fradl Shtok
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
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David Daiches
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New York City, United States of America
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Date:
1956
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rebbe levi yitskhok
tsine, his wife
khayim, their son
gnendl, their daughter
taybele, their daughter
henekh yoel, gabbai
oyzer, butcher
zavl, butcher
itshe
mordkhe
moyshe
khveder…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
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Dvora Baron
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1927
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I went under cover of night
By back streets and alleyways,
Not as one secret and ashamed
But with a natural discretion.
I passed by a boy and a girl
Embraced against the white wall
In parts of…
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Howard Nemerov
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St Louis, United States of America
Date:
1950
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Grandfather scurries from cupboard to cupboard in his black coat; he looks in every corner, checking for bread crumbs in my treasure drawer, under my crystals and shells. He rummages through…
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György Konrád
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1982
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[A deserted place on the bank of the river outside of Prague. Daybreak. All is dark and silent. Reb Levi Bar Bezalel, or the maharal, an old man of seventy, stands over an outlined mound…
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H. Leivick
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New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1921
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[…] What rabbi would come to this impoverished nowhere for the pishochs we offered, especially if he had to rent his own lodgings—the congregation had no money for an apartment when a perfectly good…
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Eileen Pollack
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
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It was like this in the garden:
Ben Azzai looked and died,
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Akiba and I went forth in peace,
but they said I cut down the young plants.
I said that one is two…
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Norman Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2000