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Fishke the Lame
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way. “You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…

Contributor:

Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)

Places:

Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1869

Subjects:

Scholarship, Marriage, Economic life, Humor, Yiddish

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Response to a Writer’s Letter in Jutrzenka, January 3, 1862
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Correspondence Warsaw, 15 December 1861 Mr. Medard’s reply to our letter dated 15 November has not, in the least, surprised us; we had indeed expected it, exactly in the form in which it is composed…

Contributor:

Al. K.

Places:

Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1862

Subjects:

Economic life, Humor, Assimilation, Politics, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts