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Contributor:
Mark Antokolski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1871
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(The songs)
It frightens us so,
With our poor wares to go
And face the wide world and its scorn.
We have lived many days,
But know only the ways.
Of the villages where we were born.
(The author)
Yo…
Contributor:
Pesach-Elijah Badkhn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1871
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
Places:
Bielsk, Russian Empire
(Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s
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A whole world of railways appeared in our time
They carry their passengers—poor men and rich.
Admire the wonder, but bear this in mind:
It’s really a parable, meant just for you.
It is we who are…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1875
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Mark Antokolski
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1864
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Admittedly, it is true that all our hearts will be filled with feelings of astonishment when we recall the giant steps that the new generation has taken upon the peaks of the sciences and forms of…
Contributor:
Abraham Harkavy
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1864
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A major issue within the internal politics of the Russian government concerns the Russification of populations in our remote regions who follow different religions and are of other ethnic backgrounds…
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Ilya Orshanski
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1877
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So let’s drink whisky, brothers—
let’s hope we live to drink again.
Let’s drink now—enough of eating.
How can you forget about whisky for so long!
If we didn’t have whisky,
how would we live in this…
Contributor:
Mikhl Gordon
Places:
Žagarė, Russian Empire
(Žagarė, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1868
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Michael Joseph Guzikov
Places:
Lyady, Russian Empire
(Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
1827