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Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…
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Sara Rabinowitsch
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1903
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Statisticians customarily provide detailed counts for a typical small town, from which deductions can be made regarding other small towns of the same type. Thus the statistics of a small town acquire…
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Jakob Lestschinsky
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1903
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Of all festivities celebrated among the Jews in southern Russia, the wedding ceremony has suffered the greatest loss of characteristic elements of folk tradition. Even among the poorest, weddings are…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1905
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The Zionist movement in Pinsk expanded and developed, and some of the best [local] activists concentrated their efforts there. Activities, such as lectures, debates, and the sale of Shekels and Jewish…
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Ḥayah Weizmann-Lichtenstein
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Pinsk, Russian Empire (Pinsk, Belarus)
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1904
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It seemed to us that there would be a real interest, for the natives and Arabists alike, to have between their hands a collection of ghernata [Granada] poetry as complete as possible and methodically…
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Edmond-Nathan Yafil
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Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1904