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Yontev-bletlekh: “Why Is This Night Different (Ma nishtanah)?”
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Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!Do not ask me…

Contributor:

David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Holidays, Haggadah, Modernity, Passover, Jewish identity, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture
Czernowitz Conference Speech: On National Education
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Signs of a new spirit among certain circles of the Jewish intelligentsia can be detected even in the private sphere, within the four walls of their homes. It happens—admittedly, not very often, but…

Contributor:

Esther Frumkina

Places:

Minsk, Russian Empire (Minsk, Belarus)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Education, Children, Holidays, Jewish identity, Class, Politics, Speeches

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches
Almanac for the Year 5675
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm] Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days) [Hebrew Date] [Day of the week] [Christian Date] [Islamic Date] 1st Thursday Se…

Contributor:

Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Calendar, Holidays, Jewish identity, Prayer & liturgy, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Lists & catalogues
Facing pages with Yiddish text in columns and some French and English text in margins.
Second Haman
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[In the royal palace. In the background stands the throne; on it sits the royal couple. To the left of the throne stand Klemens and the ladies of the court; to the right Count Lubecki and the…

Contributor:

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Performing arts

Categories:

Theater/Drama