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[Curtain]Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:How they weep, how they mourn,The wind-borne dead!No new…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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This tombstone of a Torah scholar from Sieniawa, Poland includes motifs and symbols often found on Jewish tombstones in Poland, such as a crown and palm trees. Other common symbols on Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Sieniawa, Austrian Empire (Sieniawa, Poland)
Date:
1855
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
Contributor:
Yoysef Smolazh
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937