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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…
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David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1895
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1890
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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…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1886
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To the Jewish People: The second of November, 1917, is an important milestone on the road to our national future; it marks the end of an epoch, and it opens out the beginning of a new era. The Jewish…
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WZO London Bureau
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London, United Kingdom
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1917
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…
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Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1903
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This Sixth Part is the last part of the “First Period” of Jewish history, which we have called “Israel in its Land.” Part Seven, which follows, will be the first part of…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1902