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In the Secret Place of Thunder
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1886

Subjects:

Community, Jewish identity, Cities, Modernity, Humor

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Responsum: On Technology and Jewish Law
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In the main portion of this work I spoke of the use of an electric light. Here I shall discuss the law of whether one is permitted to speak on Shabbat by means of a machine called a “telephone.”…

Contributor:

Yitsḥak Shmelkes

Places:

Peremyshliany, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Peremyshliany, Ukraine)
Peremyshliany, Ukraine

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Sabbath, Halakhah, Technology, Modernity

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Law, Responsa