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Goyim in the Ghetto
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There’s a folk saying: “The way it goes with the Christians, so it goes with the Jews.” Many concessions were made to the goyim, especially in matters concerning the ghetto. The guards at the ghetto…

Contributor:

Peretz Opoczynski

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Jewish quarters, Antisemitism, Nazis, Jewish identity

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Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Literature
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Literature, Reportage
In These Nightmarish Days
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…

Contributor:

Josef Zelkowicz

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Children, Death, Rebellion

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Literature
Among Our Distant Brethren
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(Continued from issue 76 [of Ha-Tsefira])The commandment of hospitality is well-developed in our city, and particularly in the mellah. But emissaries from the kollelim in the “Four Lands” stay with…

Contributor:

Isaac Ibn Ya‘ish

Places:

Essouira, French Protectorate in Morocco (Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco)

Date:

1891

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Education, Jewish identity, Community

Categories:

Literature, Reportage, Journalism