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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
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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…
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Ben-Avigdor
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1891
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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.
Date:
1887