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The Hit of the Century
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics, Literature
Encounter
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Morning flew by in the usual way, Up and down streets, it raced, Unwinding the spring of an ongoing watch That the night would wind up again. A coat was fastened over the chest With a clasp and a…

Contributor:

Elizaveta Polonskaya

Places:

Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1927

Subjects:

Poverty, Women, Body image, Yiddish

Categories:

Literature, Poetry