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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…
Contributor:
Ben-Avigdor
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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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
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910–1911
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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
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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Even though the town has a well right in the middle of the marketplace, many of its finest people use river water that they have to carry from the edge of the town half a mile away. The river water is…
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Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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From the silence of the night I heard a clamor,
Like the clank of chains of bondage, the sound of linked fetters
Jangling each other—
The heavens opened,
And suddenly a great flood of light burst…
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David Frishman
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1896
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When will the walls of prejudice collapse,
That split the fraternal human tribe into foes?
Will the flame of love, illuminating the earth,
Disperse the grim darkness of ignorance?
—Meanwhile the sun…
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Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
Places:
Lublin, Russian Empire (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1889
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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…
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Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1896
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
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Leo Belmont
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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Motivated by the book by Mrs. R. Centnerszwerowa: There is a heated struggle going on about public schooling in the [Polish] Kingdom [of the Russian Empire]. Various speakers at a range of meetings…
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Majer Bałaban
Places:
Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1898
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).
Contributor:
Avrom Golomb
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919