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Memories from My Life
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From Kiev I took a wagon heading for Zhitomir. Few of my readers will still remember the long coach wagons in which the past generation traveled before the railroads…

Contributor:

Yehudah Katzenelson

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Writing, Cities, Travel, Economic life, Education

Categories:

Literature, Memoirs & Diaries
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This is how things go with your average Jew. But Hershele is not your average Jew. It wasn’t by chance that he was famous in all of Ostropol, in all of Berdichev, and in all of Vilyuisk. Hershele…

Contributor:

Isaac Babel

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Economic life, Marriage, Cities, Community, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Fiction