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When “Papa” Gonta bore down on Tetayev at the head of his Cossack army in the summer of 1768, the little town had a strange look about it: the houses large and small stood desolate, their shutters…
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Asher Barash
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Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1925
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1938
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And therefore, with that, I, the young man, said that I will make a little book of my “Hymns for the Cantor with My Tunes” for the public benefit. Perhaps the one who makes use of them will do so for…
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Moses Ibn Tsur
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Fez, Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1712
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I see his melancholy profile as though through a mist, through the curtain of thick cloud that descended on him in his lifetime and darkened his bright trail with a multitude of vain fictions and will…
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Mordekhai Feierberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899