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Reb Shmelke:
Well, I can see that you are a clever man, so I will tell you the whole story in brief. [He takes a drink.] As you see me before you, I’m called Reb Smelke [Shmelke, as pronounced by a…
Contributor:
Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Zamość, Russian Empire
(Zamość, Poland)
Date:
1839
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Samuel Hirszenberg
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Lodz, Russian Empire
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Henryk Glicenstein
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1911
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In this volume I have made a selection of religious and holiday songs.
Actually, they constitute a single group, since in reality it is hard to draw a sharp dividing line between the first group and…
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Noah Pryłucki
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1910–1911
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If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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That was how she watched over the samovar all night long, so that it would boil properly. Occasionally, Grandfather stayed over for several nights at the home of one of the gentry. Then, she would…
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Yekhezkl Kotik
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1912
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All along the street, on both sides, on the lowest floor of the houses there are a multitude of stores, large and small. The majority of them are pressed into holes so narrow as to allow passage for…
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Ben-Avigdor
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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Along Krochmalna Street, placing her feet shod in elegant, light-colored boots carefully amid the muddy puddles, stepping aside at every moment so as not to stain her clothing against the greasy…
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Czesława Endelmanowa
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1905
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Manke:Wait, let’s signal Rivkele quietly. [Basha and Reyzl exit. Manke takes a stick and very softly taps a corner of the ceiling. We can hear the girls outside hopping around in the puddles, taking…
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Sholem Asch
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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[Curtain]
Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:
How they weep, how they mourn,
The wind-borne dead!
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908