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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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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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With regard to the life and fate of the remaining Jews, located at present in the Occupation Zones of Germany, you hear at every step the words: “sheyres hapleyte” [saving remnant], “sheyres hakhurbn”…
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H. Leivick
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Our classroom was on the upper floor and in the rear of the building. Its two large windows opened on a garden which, because it could be reached only by crossing M. Shalom’s apartment, was forbidden…
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Leon Sciaky
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New York, United States of America
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1946
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Esteemed Friend and Editor:
Recently a friend of mine, who is a member of the Workmen’s Circle Chorus, visited, bringing with her the…
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J. Levitt
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Uptown, at 9th Avenue and 155th St., stands the famous field—the Polo Grounds. Every afternoon, 20,000–35,000 people gather there. The entrance fee is from $0.50–1.50. Thousands of poor boys and older…
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New York City, United States of America
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1909
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The situation of Jews in the Soviet Union may well be the greatest of all the great wonders of the world. The history of Jews in tsarist Russia has been centuries of darkness…
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David Pinski
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New York City, United States of America
Warsaw, Poland
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1938
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I belong to that peculiar generation of Jews who have the duty to speak Yiddish, my mother tongue, in a tongue at once familiar and “foreign”—French. Though Yiddish is still used as a vernacular…
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Myriam Anissimov
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Evanston, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
1995