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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…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Among the wrestlers competing in the current tournament in the Panorama [Building] on Karowa Street, fighting for the 1912 Polish Championship, is a Jew called Vildman.He has become quite famous, in…
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Menachem Kipnis
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
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The wooden synagogue in Gwoździec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Poland), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Wooden synagogues were a…
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Isaac Ber and His Son, Isaac ben Judah Leib ha-Kohen, Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
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Gwoździec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1650
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“He goes back four cubits etc.”
This implies that he must move backwards, but not forwards or to the sides. [ . . . ] It seems that this action was instituted by the sages only for an individual…
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Joel Sirkes
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1631–1640