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The most terrible thing of all, somehow, was that at Brzezinka the sun was bright and warm, the rows of graceful poplars were lovely to look upon and on the grass near the gates children played.
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A. M. Rosenthal
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1958
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The Forward
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New York, United States of America
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1898
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The Jewish population in the United States has grown from a quarter of a million to about one million. Scarcely a large American town but has some Russo-Jewish names in its directory, with an educated…
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Abraham Cahan
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United States, United States of America
Washington D.C., United States
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1898
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1905 Makes a New Record in the Greatness and Success of the Tageblatt
The Tageblatt printed 174,853 “wanteds” and other smaller advertisements in the course of the twelve months in the year 1905.
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Yidishes tageblatt
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1906
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A foolish, misunderstood order by the Board of Education about cutting out “mandlen” [tonsils] from children’s throats is interpreted to mean a command to slit childrens’ throats and causes a wild…
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New York, United States of America
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1906
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From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Yiddish theater flourished on New York City’s Lower East Side, where it could draw on an audience of more than 1.5 million first- and second…
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Unknown
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1909
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It is traditional to begin a new magazine with brave declarations. If we do not, we trust we shall be forgiven.
We begin at a moment heavy with a sense of human destiny. Every schoolboy who listens to…
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Elliot E. Cohen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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It has been a long time since things have been this lively in the little Yiddish literary world of Russia. Our young writers have crowned the current period in Jewish life with the name “Cultural…
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Tsivyon
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1908