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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1880
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At the time of the shortest, sleepy winter days, edged on both sides with the furry dusk of mornings and evenings, when the city reached out ever deeper into the labyrinth of winter nights, and was…
Contributor:
Bruno Schulz
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1934
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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…
Contributor:
Ilya Orshanski
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1877
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He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…
Contributor:
Sholem Aleichem
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
1900
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. . . And in darkness of night, without dagger or bow,
On a light steed King Saul arrives at ‘Ein Dor.
And in one of the houses a dark light appears,
The squire softly…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1893
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By the window I lit a taper
A Hanukkah candle, gentle child.
Many are the memories
And the memories are brilliant.
A regiment of riders, mighty men,
If they appear before you,
Do not fear, gentle…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1901
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Summer is waning from the gold and from the copper
and violet
of leaf fall in gardens, and clouds at twilight
that drown in their own blood.
And the garden empties, only a few stragglers,
a few…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1905
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My Astarte, won’t you tell me: from where
Did you come to us in this valley? Was it in the hand of a merchant (Canaanite) of Sidon
From [the] city stronghold of the sea, through waves of agate…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Kirikovka, Russian Empire
(Kirikovka, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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[ . . . ] I further wish to say: it is not sufficient that we worry ourselves with the young kids who will grow into goats—we must also be concerned with the mature goats who have already grown horns…
Contributor:
A. Litai
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917