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Book of My Life
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[ . . . ] In the early autumn of 1918 we entered a new circle of Bolshevik hell, the period of mass Red Terror. The murder of Uritskii and…

Contributor:

Simon Dubnov

Places:

Riga, Latvia

Date:

1934–1935

Subjects:

Terrorism, Writing, Food and drink, Communism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
Traditions and Customs of the Sephardic Jews of Salonica
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Sephardic cooking in Salonica was based, until the Greek occupation of 1912, on sesame seed oil, which in the Judeo-Spanish dialect was called by the name of azeite de giungili…

Contributor:

Michael Molho

Places:

Salonika, Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1940

Subjects:

Anthropology, Food and drink, Cities, Holidays, Sabbath

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
With Spektor
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Mordkhe Spektor [1858–1925] was the “honorary chair” of the “Society of Gluttons and Drunkards.” Though he had not been elected to this “post,” everyone felt that Spektor was the singular candidate…

Contributor:

Elkhonen Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1937

Subjects:

Food and drink, Adolescence, War, Writing

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
In the Hands of the British
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This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…

Contributor:

Mordecai Sheftall

Places:

Savannah, British America and the British West Indies (Savannah, United States of America)

Date:

ca. 1778–1779

Subjects:

War, Family, Food and drink, Justice system, Punishment

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries