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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere.
Thi…
Contributor:
Shmuel Gordon
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1966
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Nothing else makes me really rage
as when a poor man does something [wrong]
he is lost here and there
everyone would happily drink his blood.
But what the rich do here
is always all right
people let…
Contributor:
Elye Bokher
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1513
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On a seasonable Saturday morning, Itchele decided that the time had finally come to get even with the butchers for their bloody triumph before the holiday. He got together a bunch of young toughs and…
Contributor:
I. M. Veisenberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1906
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Nahum Luboschez may have left the United States for Europe to escape the law, because of his ties to the anarchist movement. He spent time in Russia, documenting political demonstrations, poverty, and…
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Nahum Luboschez
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1910
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Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there lived a poor Jewish family in a small Lithuanian village. The oldest son, Borukh, had to go to the forest every day to gather dry twigs for…
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Joseph Heftman
Date:
1912