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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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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!
N…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Everyone loved . . . it was a plague
of infatuation, of kisses;
But the people soon became quiet,
the mothers were already nursing.
The drum of youth was laid
in the corner, and the…
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Jacob Steinberg
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1909
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
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Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
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(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1905
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When the [Yiddish language] culture conference gathered in Czernowitz [in September, 1908], I was against it. When the culture conference gathered in Berlin, I voiced my doubts about it. Now that a…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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I hear it said: On the contrary, inasmuch as the things most essential for the life of a people have been forcibly taken from our people’s soul, and we stand miraculously in midair like the mem and…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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1897